Thank you for this post! I am currently playing with the thought of organizing a meetup in my local area (there is no active pre-existing one) and am still undecided whether it would be a good idea (I am neither very experienced with LW/EA nor a natural in leading discussions) and this post is very helpful in pointing me towards things to consider.
I did not understand the sentence:
Meetups send a lot of counterfactual people to CFAR workshops [...].
Could someone explain what is meant with “counterfactual people”?
Could someone explain what is meant with “counterfactual people”?
People who would not have otherwise gone to CFAR, without a meetup. (I think last time this came up someone pointed out the correct term is something like “counterfactually valid.” I’m not actually sure what the best jargon here is)
Thank you for this post! I am currently playing with the thought of organizing a meetup in my local area (there is no active pre-existing one) and am still undecided whether it would be a good idea (I am neither very experienced with LW/EA nor a natural in leading discussions) and this post is very helpful in pointing me towards things to consider.
I did not understand the sentence:
Could someone explain what is meant with “counterfactual people”?
People who would not have otherwise gone to CFAR, without a meetup. (I think last time this came up someone pointed out the correct term is something like “counterfactually valid.” I’m not actually sure what the best jargon here is)
‘marginal’?
I think the phrase “marginal people” is distracting in something a bit like the way “counterfactual people” is.
Thanks, this makes sense