Lighthaven Sequences Reading Group #11 (Tuesday 11/19)
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- 19 November 2024, 6:00 pm—10:00 pm
- 2740 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
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: On Hreha On Behavioral Economics
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.
Doors open 6pm (yes we’ll let you in early if you get here). The event starts at 6:15 when we’ll welcome people, give a few announcements, and then split into groups. Dinner 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).
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.)
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
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Hope to make it for these topics. First met Eliezer when he spoke at PARC: “Think Crazy: Heuristics, Biases, and the New Science of Human Error” (2009) I told EY that I was the “kind of psychologist who can’t help people”, but he pointed to this community as having been greatly helped by research psychologists.
Scott’s piece on Behavioral Econ was published after the first post-Covid meetup at UCBerkeley in ’21. Since it’s my field (experimental psych re-branded to BE once Kahneman won the Nobel), he asked me at the picnic if I would take a look at this piece in draft.
Never compare your work to another writer’s. My own failure to follow this maxim caused me considerable distress. Scott’s weekend writeup was so typically thorough & penetrating, teaching me details I’d never learned at Stanford. But I will not compare his post to the schmatta I cobbled to earn my PhD.