Bringing friends along to the meetup may be a good idea. They don’t have to be actively LessWrongian, we have had multiple examples of interesting conversations started by newbies brought along by more active members of the group.
If at a university, advertising to student socities: science, philosophy, maths etc.
I have also been thinking of trying to boost the discussion on the meetup group’s mailing list, which may push people to choose to attend the meetup and follow up a discussion. Sequence (re-)runs seem to be a good idea to try.
Also, maybe writing up experiences from the meetups and posting those both on the mailing list, and on the LW discussion board could be useful—people can see some examples of activity and maybe those who previously didn’t think it was worth their time will move attending the meetup up on their priorities list.
Bringing friends along to the meetup may be a good idea. They don’t have to be actively LessWrongian, we have had multiple examples of interesting conversations started by newbies brought along by more active members of the group.
If at a university, advertising to student socities: science, philosophy, maths etc.
I have also been thinking of trying to boost the discussion on the meetup group’s mailing list, which may push people to choose to attend the meetup and follow up a discussion. Sequence (re-)runs seem to be a good idea to try.
Also, maybe writing up experiences from the meetups and posting those both on the mailing list, and on the LW discussion board could be useful—people can see some examples of activity and maybe those who previously didn’t think it was worth their time will move attending the meetup up on their priorities list.