Another Londoner here. By power of statistics there should be enough of us to organize it even the next weekend if we wanted.
If anybody else wants to organize that, go ahead, I don’t really have much experience in this. But in case there are no other volunteers I’ll do it. So if any Londoners interested in rationalist meetup in some coffeeshop or pub, just email me at Tomasz.Wegrzanowski@gmail.com If there will be 5 or more interested people, I’ll suggest some times and places and hopefully we can set the first meetup this way.
The first one is always the hardest, the next one will hopefully be less ad hoc than that.
Hi. Yes, it’s still going. The last meeting “The neuropsychology of self control—and its implications for AI and brain simulation” was on 13 November. See my links above for future meetings, and hope to see you there :)
I did check out the group page, but I noticed that you can’t see the calendar unless you’re a member… but I don’t like to join unless I can see the calendar of past events (to see if they’re local/relevant/interesting etc)… catch-22 sometimes ;)
Of course, I could join, look, then unjoin—but that’s far more effort… especially when you have to be approved first.
unless you join too many groups and want a reason not to ;)
That would be an accurate description of my life ;)
Currently I am interested in way too many things—and have a habit of joining up to all of them to see if I’m interested enough to continue going along…
Unfortunately I am limited by time from going to everything I’d like.
I’m in London, and till we organize something I recommend the UKTA/ExtroBritannia meets.
Another Londoner here. By power of statistics there should be enough of us to organize it even the next weekend if we wanted.
If anybody else wants to organize that, go ahead, I don’t really have much experience in this. But in case there are no other volunteers I’ll do it. So if any Londoners interested in rationalist meetup in some coffeeshop or pub, just email me at Tomasz.Wegrzanowski@gmail.com If there will be 5 or more interested people, I’ll suggest some times and places and hopefully we can set the first meetup this way.
The first one is always the hardest, the next one will hopefully be less ad hoc than that.
I’d go for a weekday evening in a pub in town to kick off...
Weekdays are useless to anyone not actually in London—even close by, it would take too long to travel in after work.
Also, pubs are hugely overrated for serious talk, where you want less echoes, less music, less TV and less shouty people. Try a Starbucks?
Edit: meeting near a station or at least Zone 1 tube is also a plus.
I’m up for that—Tue/Wed/Thu (tho not in silly season). Alternatively, a weekend midday/afternoon, unless you’d like to come out to Windsor. :)
The post you’re replying to is very old, but see Calling LW Londoners—a meetup on Sunday 2011-01-02 seems likely!
Fantastic. Thanks for that :)
Reading, UK, and UKTA is excellent.
I’m in Slough—work in London. This thread is a couple years old, though, any current activity?
Hi. Yes, it’s still going. The last meeting “The neuropsychology of self control—and its implications for AI and brain simulation” was on 13 November. See my links above for future meetings, and hope to see you there :)
Cool. Thanks. That does sound interesting.
I did check out the group page, but I noticed that you can’t see the calendar unless you’re a member… but I don’t like to join unless I can see the calendar of past events (to see if they’re local/relevant/interesting etc)… catch-22 sometimes ;)
Of course, I could join, look, then unjoin—but that’s far more effort… especially when you have to be approved first.
Hmm… that does seem a little foot-shooting, unless you join too many groups and want a reason not to ;)
There’s nothing in the ExtroBritannia list’s calendar though, but you can see the events on the blog.
That would be an accurate description of my life ;)
Currently I am interested in way too many things—and have a habit of joining up to all of them to see if I’m interested enough to continue going along…
Unfortunately I am limited by time from going to everything I’d like.