I’ve been a LessWrong organizer since 2011, with roughly equal focus on the cultural, practical and intellectual aspects of the community. My first project was creating the Secular Solstice and helping groups across the world run their own version of it. More recently I’ve been interested in improving my own epistemic standards and helping others to do so as well.
Raemon(Raymond Arnold)
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Pale Blue Dot, version 2
Betulaster’s image made me think “surely there is a version of this concept that’s more polished.” Turned out there were several different ones when I googled “self sculpting man”. Many of them are sculptures that I suspect work best in person, but I liked this one.
Self Made Man
Sunday October 18, 12:00PM (PT) — Garden Party
Curated. This post does a good job of summarizing a lot of complex material, in a (moderately) accessible fashion.
Curated.
Focusing, and felt senses, have become a pretty key part of my rationalist toolkit. I think it’s a fairly tricky concept to convey, and I’m glad for us trying to write a Thousand Roads to Rome, trying many different explanations to help people get it.
It becomes relevant every year around this time. :) :/ :O
Gather Town instance is here:
https://gather.town/app/Dgohwk4BUg5HjGZE/lesswrong-clubhouse
Hopefully fixed now.
It’s not necessary to register in advance, but if you’d like to RSVP, you’re welcome to do it on the FB version of the event.
It is noteworthy that I think the sort of person who would bother to pay a dollar to keep the site up is also the sort of person who disproportionately might use greaterwrong (or, for that matter, the /allPosts page). The frontpage gets a lot of views but I think most of them are people who aren’t using LessWrong that seriously.
I said earlier to Ben I thought the $3k number was at least plausible and seemed within an order of magnitude of right. But thinking more I do suspect it’s on the lower end of that order of magnitude I think there’s only a few hundred users for whom the LessWrong frontpage is actually enough-better than whatever else they might be doing that day that they might pay a dollar.
Sunday Meetup: Workshop on Online Surveys with Spencer Greenberg
If you’re trying to get mentored in x-risk or rationality, yes.
In Thiel’s world which of these is better?
I watched it beat-for-beat and it had tons of pretty much spot on “yup, that’s the way it went down”.
Huh, I hadn’t even thought to consider contagion as science fiction (by the time I watched it was just called “reality”)
I assume you don’t care about video if you’ll be walking around? (I think you lose a lot by giving up video, but de gustibus non disputandum.)
No, I carry my laptop around with me that’s pointed at my face (how much I’m looking at it depends, but being able to look back at it when appropriate is fairly important), and other team members pace around in their room.
Can you link to a picture of what you mean?
Looks like Gather Town crashed, but we have retreated to a Zoom call where you are welcome to join us:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83286081972?pwd=REE4Mk5qY1VrTVpGNmROMk9zWC9sQT09