Yeah, I think the issue I mostly see here is that it’s not very clear how to get to those things if you’ve just stumbled upon the site. (In particular, I don’t know much at all how to find online hangouts. I think the site does a decent job of displaying meetups—if you live near a city and want to do any hanging out, I highly recommend going to a meetup. If you don’t live near a city, then yeah doing the slack/discord/irc is the best bet, but we could do a better job of making that obvious)
On Less Wrong itself, the Open Threads and Media Threads function as this sort of thing.
I also think “rationalist facebook” and “rationalist tumblr” are places where more informal discussion ends up happening.
Join the slack, the discords, the irc, the meetups, the big events like solstice, the tumblr, the facebook…
Lots of unguarded conversation going on.
Thank you for this advice. I was going to ask you for specifics, then I felt dumb, then I just started googling, then I found the list:
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Less_Wrong_meetup_groups#Virtual
Yeah, I think the issue I mostly see here is that it’s not very clear how to get to those things if you’ve just stumbled upon the site. (In particular, I don’t know much at all how to find online hangouts. I think the site does a decent job of displaying meetups—if you live near a city and want to do any hanging out, I highly recommend going to a meetup. If you don’t live near a city, then yeah doing the slack/discord/irc is the best bet, but we could do a better job of making that obvious)
On Less Wrong itself, the Open Threads and Media Threads function as this sort of thing.
I also think “rationalist facebook” and “rationalist tumblr” are places where more informal discussion ends up happening.