This sounds extremely awesome. Something like this would improve my quality of life incomprehensibly much, I’d do very desperate things for it.
If I were in an area with critical mass, I’d go out and do the hero thing RIGHT NOW. I’d probably fail but as I said I’m desperate. However, where I live is not near critical mass, not even near it, maybe 2 or 3 orders of magnitude away from it. I can’t travel far or move because of… medical reasons, and it will likely remain this way for the foreseeable future. I am trapped and miserable, please help.
Have you considered that there may be those who have very similar values as us here at Less Wrong, but rather champion them under a different banner than ‘Rationality’?
I’m just thinking it might be worth widening your search, and scracth under the surface a bit more of what’s around you to see if you can find any gold.
Short of that, send out a few transmissions in the local forums e.g. newspapers and their websites. and see if you can pick up any signals.
South Sweden, specifically near gotenburg. I doubt there are enough rationalists in the entirety of Sweden to make a meetup, I’ve never heard of any single one. That and a few other things makes my p of such a post being worthwhile to small for me to even measure.
From my perspective, you are a counterexample and your existence suggests that there are more like you. If you are desperate, try something. What’s the worst that can happen?
The worst that can happen? I manage to pull in some insane people mistaken them for rationalists, the resulting community goes increasingly darker and create bad memes, those then spread through all of LW, ultimately resulting in a Friendliness-minimizing AI taking over the universe.
Now, if you’d asked what the worst thing that could reasonably happen was that’s a tougher question, but it’s probably still quite bad.
If there are local LW readers, they might be students at Gothenburg university, or they might hang out with Piratpartiet. (The Finnish Piraattipuolue has a subset of LWers readers, I don’t know how similar the Swedish one is.) Have you tried looking for forums or IRC channels of student associations for math, compsci, cognitive science or philosophy students at Gothenburg University or looked into Piratpartiet forums?
I thought it was a hotbed of futurism, although not on any stronger evidence than the Swedish willingness to try change. Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom have both left, but I bet there’s more there. Ask Anders and Nick, to start.
This sounds extremely awesome. Something like this would improve my quality of life incomprehensibly much, I’d do very desperate things for it.
If I were in an area with critical mass, I’d go out and do the hero thing RIGHT NOW. I’d probably fail but as I said I’m desperate. However, where I live is not near critical mass, not even near it, maybe 2 or 3 orders of magnitude away from it. I can’t travel far or move because of… medical reasons, and it will likely remain this way for the foreseeable future. I am trapped and miserable, please help.
Hey Armok
Have you considered that there may be those who have very similar values as us here at Less Wrong, but rather champion them under a different banner than ‘Rationality’?
I’m just thinking it might be worth widening your search, and scracth under the surface a bit more of what’s around you to see if you can find any gold.
Short of that, send out a few transmissions in the local forums e.g. newspapers and their websites. and see if you can pick up any signals.
Got any keywords to suggest?
What area is that? Have you tried posting an announcement to see if you get any responses?
South Sweden, specifically near gotenburg. I doubt there are enough rationalists in the entirety of Sweden to make a meetup, I’ve never heard of any single one. That and a few other things makes my p of such a post being worthwhile to small for me to even measure.
From my perspective, you are a counterexample and your existence suggests that there are more like you. If you are desperate, try something. What’s the worst that can happen?
The worst that can happen? I manage to pull in some insane people mistaken them for rationalists, the resulting community goes increasingly darker and create bad memes, those then spread through all of LW, ultimately resulting in a Friendliness-minimizing AI taking over the universe.
Now, if you’d asked what the worst thing that could reasonably happen was that’s a tougher question, but it’s probably still quite bad.
There’s Anders Sandberg, and this Google search brings up some stuff. Sandberg is also associated with a Swedish transhumanist organization that probably has folk interested in LW stuff in it.
If there are local LW readers, they might be students at Gothenburg university, or they might hang out with Piratpartiet. (The Finnish Piraattipuolue has a subset of LWers readers, I don’t know how similar the Swedish one is.) Have you tried looking for forums or IRC channels of student associations for math, compsci, cognitive science or philosophy students at Gothenburg University or looked into Piratpartiet forums?
I thought it was a hotbed of futurism, although not on any stronger evidence than the Swedish willingness to try change. Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom have both left, but I bet there’s more there. Ask Anders and Nick, to start.
I would have too, although not on any stronger evidence than a wealthy Scandinavian country being sure to harbor plenty of smart atheists.