Meetup : Brussels monthly meetup: memory!
Discussion article for the meetup : Brussels monthly meetup: memory!
This month’s topic: memory. Read some interesting research? Have a niggling worry that your entire life started last week and any memory prior to that is a fabrication? Come share! I’m experimenting with the memory palace/method of loci; if I’m successful I might try and do the party trick.
As on every second Saturday of the month, we will meet at 1 pm at La Fleur en papier doré, close to the Brussels Central station. The meeting will be in English to facilitate both French and Dutch speaking members.
If you are coming for the first time, please consider filling out this one minute form, to share your contact information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qSvI1NWkFSsfIJhUMORb_Wd8fdJTVPhdw49grDQwRTI/viewform
The Brussels meetups use a Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lesswrong-brussels
I’ve wanting to do one of these for quite some time now. It’s one of the reasons I signed up to Less Wrong. I’m going to check my schedule and see if I’m able to come at that day.
I do have some questions, though:
What’s the general atmosphere for newcomers like?
How much familiarity with Less Wrong is expected?
How does a meetup generally looks like?
Friendly curiosity.
There will probably be at least one other newcomer to this meetup.
None. LessWrong is in the name, but really we’re more interested in building a community of like-minded people to have interesting discussions with.
We’re a fairly small group at the moment; expect 3-5 people on an average meetup. It’s very informal. Mostly we just talk about interesting things we’ve read or experienced, often science- or technology-related, and we let the conversation go anywhere. Newcomers can participate like everyone else.
We’ve recently started picking specific topics for each meetup to have something to fall back on, though there’s no obligation to stick to it. Sometimes someone has an exercise or game prepared—this time it’ll be the memory palace if I can get it to work.