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 suspect there may be some undercover-readers out of Frankfurt am Main, see: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lesswrong.com# ” It has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of Frankfurt Am Main (#3,397).”
If there are, hands up by any means, we could have enough people for a german meet-up!
Do you still live there? I’ll be there on vacation next week, and I’d be interested in meeting up (general policy of looking for opportunities to meet people IRL that I only know online—if that’s not your cup of tea, I’d totally understand).
Post in this thread if you live in Europe.
Post here if you live in Sweden.
Umeå, Sweden.
Same here! Are you still around?
Stockholm, Sweden.
Härnösand, Sweden.
Uppsala, Sweden.
Gothenburg, Sweden.
People of Belgium, unite behind me … if any.
I’m from Belgium
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I live in Paris
Yvelines, next to Paris
Right next to Paris myself, Palaiseau en fait.
I do. Currently in Reims.
Greetings, from Toulouse.
I am too.
I live near Carcassonne
I’m in Paris
I live in London, UK.
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.
I’m in London
Devon, UK. London meets are a bit far at the moment, but I may be moving.
Edinburgh, republic of Scotland ;-)
I come down to london fairly frequently. it is cheap if I have notice of a month.
I’m also in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Aye, me too.
me too, University of Edinburgh
London as well.
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Edit: Also Oxford, UK in termtime.
Another Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Guildford, UK. Definitely up for any London meetups.
Yay London
Denmark?
Copenhagen (city, not snuff).
Aarhus (city with smile).
Copenhagen.
Germany, NRW, Gütersloh
Rostock, Germany.
Cologne, Germany
Xixidu, are you interested in a mini-lw-meetup in nrw?
Gießen, Germany.
I suspect there may be some undercover-readers out of Frankfurt am Main, see: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lesswrong.com# ” It has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of Frankfurt Am Main (#3,397).”
If there are, hands up by any means, we could have enough people for a german meet-up!
Also Gießen, Germany.
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Germany
me too.
Stuttgart, Germany
Post in this thread if you live in Finland.
Helsinki here.
I live in Oulu.
Oulu as well.
Tampere, but a Hungarian.
Helsinki
Norwich, UK.
Newport, South Wales (Casnewydd, De Cymru). Rarely in London, willing to travel to Bristol or Swansea.
Cambridge, UK.
Me too! (But gjm knew that).
I’m mildly surprised that so far there’s only the two of us.
Slovakia, Bratislava
Riga, LV.
Anybody from Romania?
Oslo, Norway
Oslo, Norway.
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I live in Amsterdam.
Do you still live there? I’ll be there on vacation next week, and I’d be interested in meeting up (general policy of looking for opportunities to meet people IRL that I only know online—if that’s not your cup of tea, I’d totally understand).
Present!