Lighthaven Sequences Reading Group #17 (Tuesday 01/14)
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- 14 January 2025, 6:30 pm—10:00 pm
- 2740 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
NB: We’re continuing at Lighthaven! Thanks to MATS for giving us the space to keep going.
Come get old-fashioned with us, and let’s read the sequences at Lighthaven! We’ll show up, mingle, do intros, and then split off into randomized groups for some sequences discussion. Please do the reading beforehand—it should be no more than 20 minutes of reading.
This group is aimed for people who are new to the sequences and would enjoy a group experience, but also for people who’ve been around LessWrong and LessWrong meetups for a while and would like a refresher.
This meetup will also have dinner provided! We’ll be ordering pizza-of-the-day from Sliver (including 2 vegan pizzas). Please RSVP to this event so we know how many people to have food for.
We’re roughly working through the sequences highlights. The mandatory readings this week are
Optional: Faster Than Science
The posts should take around 15-20 minutes to read if you’ve read them before, and 30-60 mins if it’s your first time.
The event starts at 6:30, and doors open 6pm (yes we will let you in early if you get here). At 6:30 we’ll welcome people, give a few announcements, and then split into groups. Pizza will be served at about 7:30pm, after which point we’ll hangout around the fireside as late as we feel like.
If you’d like to help us keep dinner going, you can donate here (dinner costs about $200 each time, we recommend $5-$15 as a donation amount per person).
You can come without having read the essays from the sequences, we do want you to get to join, but then you will have to do a punishment. (And then you still have to catch up on reading the essays during the meetup.)
If you’re ever having a hard time getting in the front door, you can call me (Ben) at five one oh, nine nine eight, four seven seven one, or Ronny at two oh one, four oh six, six eight seven two, and we’ll come and get you.
Some questions to ask yourself about the essays as you read them
What’s the most important point in the essay?
What’s the weakest point in the essay? Or what is the essay wrong about?
Can you think of a way to apply the ideas in this essay to your own life?
For the future
This is a weekly meetup! If you’d like to get notified of future events, you can subscribe to our meetup below to get an email whenever we add another one.
“If you’d like to get notified of future events, you can subscribe to our meetup below to get an email whenever we add another one.”
fwiw I’m subscribed and I haven’t received any emails. I tried verifying my email and fiddling with notification settings and haven’t been able to fix it
That’d be a bug! Just to confirm, you were subscribed before I put this post up on Saturday morning, and don’t have an email? Also reminder to check spam if you haven’t.
yes, I’ve been subscribed since December and no emails, checked spam too :)
I fiddled with it some more and it looks like the “You need to verify your email address to enable email notifications.” field might not be updating. I’ve verified a couple times, reaching the “Your email has been verified” screen, but the instruction to send a verification link persists on refresh. Maybe that’s the issue?
I double checked my notification settings and everything seems in order. I have “Posts/events in groups I’m subscribed to” set to notify me on-site and by email