Sorry if I should have read that passage more carefully.
Even when it’s the main organizer doing it—my hunch is, interrupting everyone and requiring them to do a silly ritual soley for the purpose of temporily pushing volume below equilibrium should be avoided.
Haven’t organized or attended EA/LW meetups in a while but I remember witnessing multiple failures of the kind “organizer overplayed their role, left impression they were performing gratuitous weirdness”
Sorry if I should have read that passage more carefully.
Even when it’s the main organizer doing it—my hunch is, interrupting everyone and requiring them to do a silly ritual soley for the purpose of temporily pushing volume below equilibrium should be avoided.
Haven’t organized or attended EA/LW meetups in a while but I remember witnessing multiple failures of the kind “organizer overplayed their role, left impression they were performing gratuitous weirdness”