What I was expecting: Half a dozen nerds boozing it up and shooting the breeze about math and poltiics and self improvement.
What actually happend: More like a classroom full of people, many less nerdy than me, mostly drinking water and eating icecream (apparently I was the only one drinking that awesome Devon 6% cider), chatting about widely variing topics including math and politics and polyphasic sleep and self improvement and fan-fiction and cults and meta self-organizing stuff.
Apparently this was a bigger turnout than usual, but not by the margin I would have assumed from only reading lesswrong etc. I suspect that if the aim is to grow the membership, encouraging everyone who goes to write about it here would be helpful.
Overall good fun, will go again if scheduling allows (which is twice as likely if there’s twice as many meets of course)
Adam.. (Now also know as Pie, thanks to poor handwriting skills)
That was pretty good fun.
What I was expecting: Half a dozen nerds boozing it up and shooting the breeze about math and poltiics and self improvement.
What actually happend: More like a classroom full of people, many less nerdy than me, mostly drinking water and eating icecream (apparently I was the only one drinking that awesome Devon 6% cider), chatting about widely variing topics including math and politics and polyphasic sleep and self improvement and fan-fiction and cults and meta self-organizing stuff.
Apparently this was a bigger turnout than usual, but not by the margin I would have assumed from only reading lesswrong etc. I suspect that if the aim is to grow the membership, encouraging everyone who goes to write about it here would be helpful.
Overall good fun, will go again if scheduling allows (which is twice as likely if there’s twice as many meets of course)
Adam.. (Now also know as Pie, thanks to poor handwriting skills)