FriggenRedChickenMan

• FriggenRedChickenMan 20 Jan 2023 23:30 UTC

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  in reply to: jimv’s comment on: Look­ing for a spe­cific group of people

  Alright, I’m not getting around giving a little bit more info here, am I.

  I’ve been a Guild of the Rose member for more than a year now. A while ago, in there, I started up a group that does what I’ve described in the question. The reason I’m looking for another group like that is to hopefully either merge the groups, or exchange information, or anything that speeds this whole development up, as our processes and tools only develop slowly.

  The issue with the guild is that even in there, with most people working on improving themselves, the level of ambition is disappointing. The way the guild is structured, it’s working well on ensuring that members don’t lose. They’re working on getting rid of weaknesses. They’re doing it well. But they’re not working on winning.

  This is now the third time I’ve been pointed at the guild. The good news is, the algorithm is working: I keep getting pushed towards the type of group I’ve been looking for. The bad news, it’s mine.

  I really appreciate the feedback and the pointers coming in, and it feels nice to have confirmation that the algorithm is working, but I was hoping there’d be other communities out there I could check. There have to be other people who had the same idea.

• FriggenRedChickenMan 19 Jan 2023 11:40 UTC

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  in reply to: Viliam’s comment on: Look­ing for a spe­cific group of people

  Meetups, possibly LW ones, might just be the next step. In general, the idea of networking in person has come up a few times now, but my hope was to jump from forum to forum until I end up on e.g. some discord server with a handful of people doing what I’ve described. I’m reasonably certain that that kind of server exists somewhere and has for some time.

  One would think that this is a simple graph problem, but I’ve so far only got really few answers that actually would get me to jump into another server—most people just love to discuss everything about this but potential answers to my question. Which is fun, but doesn’t really get me closer to my goal. But if I find a magic combination of words to use in my posts that fixes that problem and gets me to the Illuminati, I’ll drop a hint on here.

  >you may find a group of overconfident people who believe they are winning systematically
  That’s a good point. There might be a bunch of failure modes that stem from me incorrectly identifying the place I’m at as something I’ve been looking for. I’ll have to ponder that one.

• FriggenRedChickenMan 19 Jan 2023 11:12 UTC

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  in reply to: Bo Chin’s comment on: Look­ing for a spe­cific group of people

  I’ll have to give the whole “make a product prototype” thing another try. I’ve been postponing that until have I employees, but maybe hacking together a prototype is good enough to impress some angel investor.

• FriggenRedChickenMan 19 Jan 2023 11:09 UTC

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  in reply to: mukashi’s comment on: Look­ing for a spe­cific group of people

  >How old are you?
  27

  >What do you know? What have you read so far?
  I don’t think I can list all of that. I’ve been doing software engineering for about a decade now, have a baseline level of competence in everything entrepreneur, and then read /​ implemented everything that seemed useful

  >Where do you live? Are you living in a shack in India or you have a wealthy comfortable life somewhere in London?
  Germany, wealthy comfortable

  I’m not entirely sure whether my circumstances are super important. I’m not necessarily looking for a group of wealthy people. I’m more interested in people who are working on improving the trajectory of their wealth. For example, a guy in a shack in India implementing an algorithm that calculates the optimal portfolio allocation for a set of bets beats a wealthy guy that’s just cruising on fund money.

• FriggenRedChickenMan 18 Jan 2023 22:04 UTC

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  in reply to: mukashi’s comment on: Look­ing for a spe­cific group of people

  It starts with making my first few millions and ends with solving all the fun technological problems that are still open once I’m there. Finding a group of people sufficiently motivated to make significant amounts of money and somewhat along the process would be a win condition.

• FriggenRedChickenMan 18 Jan 2023 22:00 UTC

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  in reply to: Bo Chin’s comment on: Look­ing for a spe­cific group of people

  Do you think there’s really nowhere to go from here? I’ve been lurking here for a year now and read a ton of great stuff. But even though the people I’ve met sharing this space are great, there’s a severe lack of ambition around that could actually stress test everything developed and discussed on here.

• FriggenRedChickenMan 18 Jan 2023 21:13 UTC

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  in reply to: the gears to ascension’s comment on: Look­ing for a spe­cific group of people

  Being prosocial in the context of the group: They probably have a way to ensure everyone puts work in.

  Being prosocial in general: I don’t think a change in ability to execute on my intentions translates into a change of my social alignment. I’d just do whatever I do right now, but with an accelerated timeline.

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