Update: For a variety of reasons I decided to host the event fully inside LessWrong's gather.town Walled Garden.
Whoops. Okay, for immediate future, just going to garden.lesswrong.com should work.
EDIT: this also doesn't work. This one should work. So sorry:
http://garden.lesswrong.com?code=yoG1&event=guest-pass
I tried that a couple times, including just now after seeing your recommendation to, but get:
"The Walled Garden is a private virtual space managed by the LessWrong team.
It is closed right now. Please return on Sunday between noon and 4pm PT, when it is open to everyone. If you have a non-Sunday invite, you may need to log in."
The guest pass works for me, but then I get a "Congratulations! Your invite code to Guest Pass is valid (and will be for next many hours). Please take a look at our guidelines below, then join the party!" message, and when I click on "enter the garden", I get a blank page. The devtools console says "Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document." with the callstack pointing at gather.town/bundle.js. Using chromium, which has worked for me on gather.town before.
(edit: found a link to it on gather.town itself and that works)
Yeah, I think there is a chromium thing in particular with embedded iframes and gather town. Not sure why. Using the Gather Town link directly should work.
Although I had trouble logging in at first, I still liked having the whole thing inside the walled garden, rather than starting in zoom and switching. I think it was worth the trouble (and probably that trouble won’t happen every time)
For this Sunday's LW Online Meetup, I'll be will be leading an exercise on Mindful Puzzle Solving, derived from the Tuning Your Cognitive Algorithms exercise on bewelltuned.com.
The basic premise is to solve a medium-difficulty-puzzle, while spending a lot of attention on noticing exactly what your brain is doing at every step. You can then notice which pieces of your process are doing most of the work, and which are wasted motion.
This is not only valuable for improving your puzzle-solving abilities, but for generally improving the feedback loops that improve your cognitive abilities. I've found this to be one of the most essential rationalist skills that I've learned.
We'll be meeting in the Lecture Hall in the Walled Garden, at noon PT. (Follow this invite link to enter the Garden. Follow the path to the Tardis, and then enter the "Bacon Lecture Hall")
I'll give a short talk on the theory-and-practice of tuning your cognitive algorithms. We'll spend two 20 minute periods doing individual exercises, and then talking about what we learned.
http://garden.lesswrong.com?code=yoG1&event=guest-pass