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• blob 7 Dec 2012 7:06 UTC

  63 points

  on: 2012 Win­ter Fundraiser for the Sin­gu­lar­ity Institute

  I donated 650$ and will donate the same amount to the CFAR fundraiser.

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end in Berlin

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2014 retrospective

• blob 3 Jul 2012 10:22 UTC

  34 points

  on: Less Wrong Product & Ser­vice Recommendations

  E-book readers such as the Kindle

  I use mine way more often than I originally expected. The low weight means I can have it in my bag by default. A lot of content is available in e-book format and it’s easy to get onto the device. Reading lengthy articles on it makes me less likely to get distracted by links, email, etc.

  The unexpected killer feature for me was that you can use it one-handedly. I’ve been carrying my sleeping daughter and reading at the same time for hours—that would have been impossible or at least prohibitively uncomfortable with a book.

• blob 16 Sep 2017 12:42 UTC

  22 points

  in reply to: pepe_prime’s comment on: 2017 LessWrong Survey

  I’ve taken the survey.

• blob 25 Apr 2012 14:57 UTC

  16 points

  on: Wel­come to Less Wrong! (2012)

  Hello!

  I’m a mathematician and working as a programmer in Berlin, Germany. I read HPMOR after following a recommendation in a talk on Cognitive Psychology For Hackers and proceeded to read most of the sequences.

  Reading LW has had several practical consequences for me: Spaced repetition and effective altruism were new to me. Things have also improved around social skills, exercise and nutrition.

  I’m also part of a small Berlin LW meetup: spuckblase and me have met twice—and now we got contacted by two other Berlin based lurkers which prompted the creation of a wiki entry and a mailing list. We’re now planning the first meetup that will actually get a meetup post and be announced in advance.

• blob 20 Oct 2014 3:51 UTC

  10 points

  in reply to: vollmer’s comment on: Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2015

  Of course it will also be possible to offer contributing content at a later point. There will be an additional “call for papers” at a date closer to the actual event.

• blob 1 Jun 2012 5:04 UTC

  10 points

  on: How to Run a Suc­cess­ful Less Wrong Meetup

  Great document! Were there any major changes from the last version on google docs?

  Some comments:

  The “Add new meetup” button described in “Making the announcement” only appears if you have more than two points of karma. While most organizers probably meet that requirement, I thought I simply hadn’t found the right place and had to ask someone. I’d prefer if the button showed, but was disabled and had a “need two karma for that” tooltip for people with <2 karma over adding the information to the document.

  In the section on Liar’s dice:

  See Wikipedia for a number of variants, as well as detailed information about the bidding systems.

  Unfortunately the descriptions of the various bidding systems were recently removed from Wikipedia. This is the last revision that has them.

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

• blob 4 Jan 2016 6:15 UTC

  5 points

  on: Why CFAR? The view from 2015

  Here’s a concrete anecdote related to the “Do-gooding and epistemic rationality” part.

  One of the key benefits I got from the workshop I attended in 2014 was clearer perception and acceptance of my goals.

  “I don’t know what’s important to me beyond myself, family, friends” and “It doesn’t seem like I really care about the world” (donating to EA charities seemed like a should) got changed. I do care, and already did before the workshop. It seems like the goals hadn’t propagated fully, I hadn’t accepted them—possibly because of the scope, the stakes and the implications of taking them seriously.

  I have a clear memory of this shift happening because the question “Given these goals, is what you’re currently doing correct?” popped up for real the first time. It was great to be able to talk about it directly.

• blob 26 Dec 2015 10:50 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: Tenoke’s comment on: Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2016

  There’s a good chance you’ll be able to participate even if you sign up late. We plan for more participants this time (100 instead of 80) and will also stagger signups in a way keeps some tickets available until a month in advance. If you want to be sure, committing now remains the best option though.

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

• blob 27 Sep 2017 12:14 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: Stupid Ques­tions—Septem­ber 2017

  The typical distance between your eyes and the display is closer for a smartphone than for a monitor. If you had both and they had the same resolution the smartphone-pixel would usually take up more of your field of view than the monitor-pixel. The closer the display is to your eyes, the more pixels you’d like it to have. Think about VR headsets as an extreme case: their displays have resolutions like 2160x1200 and people complain that they can see every pixel.

  And relating to that, adding more pixels has diminishing returns. Personally for instance I don’t care about adding more pixels to current-gen monitors (while keeping the size constant; larger screens need more pixels). Some people would certainly be able to make use of it, but I would hardly benefit. Improvements in color would be very nice though and it’s nice to see things start moving into that direction.

Meetup : Ber­lin, prac­ti­cal rationality

Meetup : Ber­lin so­cial meetup

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

Meetup : Ber­lin social

Meetup : Ber­lin Meetup

• blob 12 Feb 2021 20:13 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: TheSimplestExplanation’s comment on: Covid 2/​11: As Expected

  20.3% of the analysed cases in week 4 were B.1.1.7, and current numbers for week 5 show 28.5%. The pdf linked from https://​​covid19.ssi.dk/​​virusvarianter/​​opgoerelse-over-udvalgte-af-sars-cov-2-virusvarianter is currently updated daily.

• blob 4 Jul 2020 6:43 UTC

  3 points

  on: LWCW 2020 - Euro­pean LessWrong Com­mu­nity Weekend

  Note that the 2020 LWCW was cancelled due to COVID-19.