I’d come along to a meeting that took place in London centered around Less Wrong/ Overcoming Bias type topics.
To be honest, the more ‘strongly’ Transhumanist topics don’t excite me too much, but I’d love a good conversation about rationality, ethics, the (non)meaning of life, etc...
I agree that a format based on a speaker and then discussion would lend itself to a more on-topic discussion. Alternatively, for some topics more than others, a ‘book-club’ type approach might work:
We could, for example, all read Mill or Bentham and then one could be designated to MC the event, get conversation going, pop the attendees out of any infinite conversational loops, provide cheesy-poofs, and other duties befitting a group of people who argue on the internet. (Perhaps the one suggesting the next topic/book could then take on the responsibility for the next meeting.)
I’d come along to a meeting that took place in London centered around Less Wrong/ Overcoming Bias type topics.
To be honest, the more ‘strongly’ Transhumanist topics don’t excite me too much, but I’d love a good conversation about rationality, ethics, the (non)meaning of life, etc...
I agree that a format based on a speaker and then discussion would lend itself to a more on-topic discussion. Alternatively, for some topics more than others, a ‘book-club’ type approach might work:
We could, for example, all read Mill or Bentham and then one could be designated to MC the event, get conversation going, pop the attendees out of any infinite conversational loops, provide cheesy-poofs, and other duties befitting a group of people who argue on the internet. (Perhaps the one suggesting the next topic/book could then take on the responsibility for the next meeting.)
Thoughts?
(Short-time reader, first time poster)
I think book discussions are an excellent idea, particularly for technical topics.