Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Meet on the ground floor of QNC, on or near thegray slab benches at 7:20ish, and a regular will let everyone into a room in IQC for 7:30 pm. You can see the precise location onplus.codes. The benches are near the Ring Road entrance, and across the hall from an orange-tinted lab space.
As always, vegetarian snacks will be provided.
Activity
This week we’ll be doing an activity called Dissent Collusion, which is designed to help people grow comfortable with dissenting or assenting to a larger group. Some of us may conform too easily to what others think, while some of us tend to dissent out of a defiant habit. Either way, you should expect some social pressure when it’s your turn, but the purpose is to have a safe place to practice the skill. It’s been a few years since we last ran this event, and this time we’ll experiment with a variation that gives a chance for the deceivers to know the true answer.
Dissent Collusion
Meet on the ground floor of QNC, on or near the gray slab benches at 7:20ish, and a regular will let everyone into a room in IQC for 7:30 pm. You can see the precise location on plus.codes. The benches are near the Ring Road entrance, and across the hall from an orange-tinted lab space.
As always, vegetarian snacks will be provided.
Activity
This week we’ll be doing an activity called Dissent Collusion, which is designed to help people grow comfortable with dissenting or assenting to a larger group. Some of us may conform too easily to what others think, while some of us tend to dissent out of a defiant habit. Either way, you should expect some social pressure when it’s your turn, but the purpose is to have a safe place to practice the skill. It’s been a few years since we last ran this event, and this time we’ll experiment with a variation that gives a chance for the deceivers to know the true answer.
Readings
Lonely Dissent—Eliezer Yudkowsky