You lost your meeting room because you were discussing (what I assume to be) politically sensitive topics.
No, I lost it because it was a LessWrong meetup and there are such discussions on LessWrong (and our meetup.com page says SSC/LW, so SSC association was also a problem). The problem was not that the topics might be discussed on the meetup with was more applied rationality focused.
The problem was one of association, not one of meetup content. We could have held the meetup if we wouldn’t link from any LW or SSC branded page and called it ‘rationality meetup’.
So now I’m left wondering, if not here, then where?
The ‘Darwinian Gender Studies’ facebook group seems one place worth mentioning. TheMotte was founded to have a place where discussion could be happen with less collateral damage.
There might still be a risk for any insider to participate in them with their public identity attached. Private discussions behind closed doors would be less risky.
No, I lost it because it was a LessWrong meetup and there are such discussions on LessWrong (and our meetup.com page says SSC/LW, so SSC association was also a problem). The problem was not that the topics might be discussed on the meetup with was more applied rationality focused.
The problem was one of association, not one of meetup content. We could have held the meetup if we wouldn’t link from any LW or SSC branded page and called it ‘rationality meetup’.
The ‘Darwinian Gender Studies’ facebook group seems one place worth mentioning. TheMotte was founded to have a place where discussion could be happen with less collateral damage.
There might still be a risk for any insider to participate in them with their public identity attached. Private discussions behind closed doors would be less risky.