This sounds pretty awesome. Sadly nothing LW seemed to be going on in NY when I visited earlier in the month (sadly no-one married me so I’m back in the UK), but I’m excited to hear about an active musical-participatory branch of Less Wrongers.
I’m a pianist/performer currently undergoing a painful transition to composer/lyricist. I’d like to write musicals to broadcast various rationalist, effective altruist, existential crisis and pro-open borders messages, probably delineated to some degree. I’d like to get in touch with people who do similar things!
Is this open mic night popular? What are people’s experience of the intersection between music and rationality?
There is actually always something going on LW-wise in New York, but we don’t publicize most of our events (there are weekly Tuesday meetups, and bi-weekly self-improvement meetups on Sundays). Most of the time we’re pretty close to room capacity (around 10-15 people showing up in a smallish apartment), and for the past few months we didn’t have many high quality presentations that seemed worth advertising. (There is a private mailing list where we announce most of our weekly discussions)
Historically, the Open Mic tends to have around 15 attendees. We’ve actually been on hiatus for a few months, and this is our relaunch at a new location. I’ve been doing a lot of promotion this month at new venues and expect to pick up a few more people. Many of the people (about 2/3rds of the regular attendees) are not actually LW-folk. Part of my goal is to expand rationality into the sister-spheres of skepticism, humanism, etc.
I manage the rational ritual mailing list where artistically and ritually inclined LW-folk (and some non-LW folk) collaborate, both on individual works and on larger events. You’re welcome to join there, and I’d be up for skyping individually if you’d like.
This sounds pretty awesome. Sadly nothing LW seemed to be going on in NY when I visited earlier in the month (sadly no-one married me so I’m back in the UK), but I’m excited to hear about an active musical-participatory branch of Less Wrongers.
I’m a pianist/performer currently undergoing a painful transition to composer/lyricist. I’d like to write musicals to broadcast various rationalist, effective altruist, existential crisis and pro-open borders messages, probably delineated to some degree. I’d like to get in touch with people who do similar things!
Is this open mic night popular? What are people’s experience of the intersection between music and rationality?
There is actually always something going on LW-wise in New York, but we don’t publicize most of our events (there are weekly Tuesday meetups, and bi-weekly self-improvement meetups on Sundays). Most of the time we’re pretty close to room capacity (around 10-15 people showing up in a smallish apartment), and for the past few months we didn’t have many high quality presentations that seemed worth advertising. (There is a private mailing list where we announce most of our weekly discussions)
Historically, the Open Mic tends to have around 15 attendees. We’ve actually been on hiatus for a few months, and this is our relaunch at a new location. I’ve been doing a lot of promotion this month at new venues and expect to pick up a few more people. Many of the people (about 2/3rds of the regular attendees) are not actually LW-folk. Part of my goal is to expand rationality into the sister-spheres of skepticism, humanism, etc.
I manage the rational ritual mailing list where artistically and ritually inclined LW-folk (and some non-LW folk) collaborate, both on individual works and on larger events. You’re welcome to join there, and I’d be up for skyping individually if you’d like.