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Meetup : Rochester Rationalists: Utopia discussion meetup

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Discussion article for the meetup : Rochester Rationalists: Utopia discussion meetup

WHEN: 17 April 2016 01:00:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 302 Goodman St N, Rochester, NY 14607

Location: Nox

Whether reaching one is possible or not, utopian settings can be a useful thought experiment for examining our values. What's necessary to make a good one? What seemingly-good traits would go horribly wrong?

Some related articles (completely optional reading):

Just another day in utopia

Archipelago and atomic communitarianism (part III is where the meat of the article starts)

31 laws of fun

Discussion article for the meetup : Rochester Rationalists: Utopia discussion meetup

Replying toGamified psychiatry

mare-of-night10y

Gamified psychiatry

I second this.

Replying toWelcome to LessWrong (January 2016)

mare-of-night10y

Welcome to LessWrong (January 2016)

Hello! I've been a reader since 2012 or so, and used to comment occasionally under a different username. (I switched because I wanted to be less directly connected to my real name.)

Replying to[Link] Huffington Post article promoting Effective Altruist ideas

mare-of-night10y

[Link] Huffington Post article promoting Effective Altruist ideas

+1 for looking at the evidence (comments)

Meetup : Rochester LessWrong and Transhumanists

mare-of-night

10y

Discussion article for the meetup : Rochester LessWrong and Transhumanists

WHEN: 12 September 2015 01:00:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 3333 West Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623

Location: Jitters Cafe

I'm starting a meetup group in Rochester so some of us can hang out in meatspace. Hopefully, this will be a recurring meetup, every 2 - 4 weeks or so. To be notified of future meetups, join the meetup.com group: http://www.meetup.com/Rochester-Transhumanists/

For the first meetup, we'll play some board games (I have Xendo, and feel free to bring other games, too), eat pizza, get to know

mare-of-night11y

2014 Survey of Effective Altruists

That was a weird feeling; I didn't realize that this was my own comment, and only checked the username when that last paragraph seemed eerily familiar.

As a follow-up: I got a good full-time job starting in January 2015. I've got 10% of post-tax earnings from my internships set aside in a savings account to donate when Givewell announces 2015 recommendations, and I'll add 5% of this year's pre-tax salary to that donation also. Nothing actually donated yet, but it seems really unlikely that I won't do it. I'm planning to keep donating 5% of pre-tax as a token amount for the next few years, and have a few plans for how I might be able to donate more later. I was several months late in deciding to do this and setting up the savings account, so my reminder emails didn't work perfectly, but in the end I did it.

Replying toLifehack Ideas December 2014

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Lifehack Ideas December 2014

The main problem I've had with it is that a too-large dose makes me feel sleepy the next day. (3mg, felt extremely sleepy for 4 hours after getting up, and I'd slept in a bit more than normal, too.) My results are a bit strange, though, because another medication I take interacts with it. 1/4mg (guesstimated by cutting the pills with a knife) is usually enough for me.

Replying toLifehack Ideas December 2014

mare-of-night11y

Lifehack Ideas December 2014

These probably aren't the best ones out there, just what came to mind easily:

For people who take a few different medications, those weekly pill box things - it takes less attention to do it all at once when non-groggy.
Keeping one's workspace clean and organized might be an example; a lot of people say they can pay attention more easily when things are clean.
Keep bicycle tires well pumped - makes you go a lot faster. (Also, having the correct kind of tires. Mountain bike tires are slow on pavement.)
Set up the computer/browser to automatically open the tabs/programs you use the most. (I know some people who do this on their work computers.)
"no 'poo"

mare-of-night11y

2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey

I took the survey.

Did anyone else fall on the borderline for some of these questions? I was in a weird space for the one about whether you ever had a relationship with someone else from LW (they introduced me to LW).

Replying toThings You Can't Countersignal

mare-of-night11y

Things You Can't Countersignal

I don't think I usually mean it as counter-signalling (from the inside, it feels like I'm talking in a way that I find more fun/interesting/funny), but I have little bits of self-depreciation as part of my normal speech. I have to consciously turn it off for job interviews, because in that context it always gets taken literally. This is probably why. (Possibly also some influence from the other person consciously trying to evaluate me during the conversation.)

Replying toLink: Interesting Video About Automation and the Singularity

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Link: Interesting Video About Automation and the Singularity

I hadn't thought of religion, but that makes a lot of sense. I could also see homemade gifts being really popular - making something specifically for someone is about more than the thing itself, so it isn't so easily replaceable. I'd also be interested to see what happens when people have so much time and energy to devote to their relationships, with things like that.

Hm.. I'm not really sure how price incentives would work in this context. Avoiding monopolies would definitely be important. If we assume that problem is solved, would competing on price be enough? It's a really weird sort of economics, when most of the customers' income comes from a corporate tithe... I'm too tired for math at the moment, might take a look at it later.

Open Thread, October 27 - 31, 2013

mare-of-night

12y

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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Meetup : Philadelphia - What Bayesianism taught me

mare-of-night

12y

Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia - What Bayesianism taught me

WHEN: 06 October 2013 01:00:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 1100 Washington Ave, Philadelphia, PA

We will have a meetup this Sunday, 6 October, at 1pm at Nam Phuong restaurant, 11th and Washington.

Nam Phuong is on 11th street, a mile south of Market East. It is on the west side of the street, between Washington and Ellsworth.

The discussion prompt is the article (What Bayesianism taught me)[http://lesswrong.com/lw/iat/what_bayesianism_taught_me/].

Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia - What Bayesianism taught me

Meetup : Philadelphia - The Sword of Good

mare-of-night

12y

Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia - The Sword of Good

WHEN: 22 September 2013 12:30:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 1515 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Location: Givovani's Pizza

Discussion topic: The Sword of Good (A short story - I highly recommend reading it before the meetup if you are able, because it's meant to have some element of surprise.)

Fiction doesn't seem to be used as a discussion topic for meetups very often, but I noticed that we tend to end up talking about stories together anyway, and it usually leads to interesting conversations.

If you have any simple games you'd like to play as a group, please bring them - it will give us something to do in the beginning while people are still arriving.

Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia - The Sword of Good

Meetup : Philadelphia - Humans are not automatically strategic

mare-of-night

12y

Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia - Humans are not automatically strategic

WHEN: 25 August 2013 04:00:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 1515 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA

We will be meeting at Giovani Pizza at 4 PM on Sunday to discuss the article Humans Are Not Automatically Strategic. If you don't have time to read the article, come out anyway. We welcome your thoughts on the subject regardless. See you there!

Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia - Humans are not automatically strategic

Meetup : Philadelphia informal meetup

mare-of-night

13y

Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia informal meetup

WHEN: 28 July 2013 03:00:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: 1414 S Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA

There has been some interest in reviving the Philadelphia LessWrong meetup group. We're going to start with an informal meetup at the coffee shop La Colombe, tentatively from 3:00 to 4:30 (but will likely extend past the planned time).

Our plan for the meeting: 1) Get to know each other 2) Talk about our goals for the group, and what we can contribute 3) Brainstorm ideas for future activities and discussions

The discussion topic is "optimizing working in groups". We might or might not get to it, depending on how long the rest takes and what people feel like talking about.

We have been using a mailing list to communicate. Feel free to join. If you'd like to come to future meetups, please mark which times are convenient for you on the calendar.