Meetup : Brussels meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Brussels meetup
We are once again meeting at ‘la fleur en papier doré’ close to the Brussels Central station. If you feel like an intelligent discussion and are in the neighborhood, consider dropping by. As always, I’ll have a sign.
For newcomers you can review what we did before on our wiki page http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Brussels_meetup_group
Potential materials for discussions :
try http://www.quora.com/Politics/Is-there-a-website-to-prepare-meetings-that-would-provide-some-topics-and-some-points-for-each-participant-let-participants-upvote-and-downvote-until-some-time-before-the-meeting-and-then-the-team-would-work-with-priorities-assigned-by-those-votes with pen and paper
building “trails” of LW articles for newcomers or not people who just want a “refresh” (if some are motivated I’ll bring my laptop)
Alzheimer as diabetes type 3 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/10/alzheimers-junk-food-catastrophic-effect
AGI leader AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/zq56m/im_dr_ben_goertzel_artificial_general/
Hacking EEG devices https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity12/sec12-final56.pdf
weekly collapse http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/10/we-are-now-one-year-and-counting-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say--2
emotions/rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/
ReflectOns:Mental Prostheses for Self-Reflection http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2012/09/10/sajid-sadi-thesis-defense http://fluid.media.mit.edu/people/sajid/current/reflectons.html
Zin-Side Out, the desire to conform to popular opinion http://blog.media.mit.edu/2012/07/zin-side-out.html
la France des deconnectes http://fr.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14247437
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: The Podcast http://www.hpmorpodcast.com
Mapping The Next Three Decades of Health Technology http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680532/mapping-the-next-three-decades-of-health-technology
Rosenhan experiment or “On being sane in insane places.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
Some resources mentioned during the meetup
Thinking, Fast and Slow (1h video) http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=155752
Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain, MIT Press 2005 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10550&ttype=2
A Brain Implant that Thinks, MIT Tech Review 2012 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429204/a-brain-implant-that-thinks/
Impact of caloric restriction on health and survival in rhesus monkeys from the NIA study, Nature 2012 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature11432.html
Activation of adult-born neurons facilitates learning and memory, Nature Neuroscience 2012 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v15/n6/full/nn.3108.html
Norbert Wiener http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener (related to the bus stop)