WHERE:Mel’s Diner, 801 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
Happy Independence Day! San Francisco’s Less Wrong group is having a meetup tomorrow, Tuesday July 5th, at our usual spot at Mel’s Diner, starting at 7 pm sharp. This week, we are being joined by the better part of Marin County’s 6 LW’ers, and I’d really like to show them a good time. I will bring fireworks to dinner that we can all set off together in as public a place as people have risk-tolerance for. In honor of the national holiday, this week’s discussion theme will be “When (if ever) does it make sense to sacrifice yourself for a greater cause?” Note that we will try hard not to debate any -particular- cause for too long; the goal is not so much as to find The Answer To Politics as it is to find general heuristics that can help us evaluate political claims.
UPDATE—The meetup attracted 4 people, and we all had a nice time. Planning for another joint SF-Marin meetup is in the works, this time hopefully with a bit more notice to everyone so that more of those who want to can attend. Photos of BOOM are available here.
Meetup : Marin & SF Less Wrong Make Things Go Boom
Discussion article for the meetup : Marin & SF Less Wrong Make Things Go Boom
WHEN: 05 July 2011 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: Mel’s Diner, 801 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
Happy Independence Day! San Francisco’s Less Wrong group is having a meetup tomorrow, Tuesday July 5th, at our usual spot at Mel’s Diner, starting at 7 pm sharp. This week, we are being joined by the better part of Marin County’s 6 LW’ers, and I’d really like to show them a good time. I will bring fireworks to dinner that we can all set off together in as public a place as people have risk-tolerance for. In honor of the national holiday, this week’s discussion theme will be “When (if ever) does it make sense to sacrifice yourself for a greater cause?” Note that we will try hard not to debate any -particular- cause for too long; the goal is not so much as to find The Answer To Politics as it is to find general heuristics that can help us evaluate political claims.
UPDATE—The meetup attracted 4 people, and we all had a nice time. Planning for another joint SF-Marin meetup is in the works, this time hopefully with a bit more notice to everyone so that more of those who want to can attend. Photos of BOOM are available here.
Discussion article for the meetup : Marin & SF Less Wrong Make Things Go Boom