We rebranded from “Less Wrong London” because several of us had stopped reading Less Wrong. I currently advertise meetups on our facebook group and /r/slatestarcodex.
Currently we have no topics or agenda; we just meet in a pub every other week and talk about whatever we feel. As the organizer, I’ve said that if anyone wants to do something beyond this, they’re welcome to take over for a week, but I’m not likely to do any more than that any time soon.
We’ve attempted other things in the past (themed discussions; games; outings) with mixed success. I think the main reason we’re not doing them now is because nobody wants to put in the work for them.
We briefly used the conversation system I wrote about here, and I think it worked quite well when we did, but we don’t use it now for no particular reason. (I think we’re smaller than we were then, so there’s less need for it.)
Do you track where new people come from? I’m wondering about what channels it makes sense to focus on maintaining a presence in. (Hadn’t thought of doing it on r/ssc)
I occasionally ask new people, and I don’t remember anyone saying /r/ssc since the beginning (when Scott mentioned us on the blog), but I can’t give any more detail than that.
London rationalish
We rebranded from “Less Wrong London” because several of us had stopped reading Less Wrong. I currently advertise meetups on our facebook group and /r/slatestarcodex.
Currently we have no topics or agenda; we just meet in a pub every other week and talk about whatever we feel. As the organizer, I’ve said that if anyone wants to do something beyond this, they’re welcome to take over for a week, but I’m not likely to do any more than that any time soon.
We’ve attempted other things in the past (themed discussions; games; outings) with mixed success. I think the main reason we’re not doing them now is because nobody wants to put in the work for them.
We briefly used the conversation system I wrote about here, and I think it worked quite well when we did, but we don’t use it now for no particular reason. (I think we’re smaller than we were then, so there’s less need for it.)
Do you track where new people come from? I’m wondering about what channels it makes sense to focus on maintaining a presence in. (Hadn’t thought of doing it on r/ssc)
I occasionally ask new people, and I don’t remember anyone saying /r/ssc since the beginning (when Scott mentioned us on the blog), but I can’t give any more detail than that.