Weekly LW Meetups: Berkeley, Madison, Melbourne, Norwich

[FrankAdamek]

There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups in:

• First Norwich UK Meetup Sunday 1 April 11am: 01 April 2012 11:00AM

• Brussels meetup: 14 April 2012 11:00AM

• Shanghai Less Wrong Meetup: 15 April 2012 10:36PM

• Sydney meetup—Biased pandemic and other games: 17 April 2012 07:30PM

The following meetups take place in cities with regularly scheduled meetups, but involve a change in time or location, special meeting content, or simply a helpful reminder about the meetup:

• Monday Madison Meetup: 02 April 2012 06:30PM

• Big Berkeley meetup: 04 April 2012 06:30PM

• Melbourne, practical rationality: 06 April 2012 08:00PM

Locations with regularly scheduled meetups: Austin, Berkeley, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge UK, London, Madison WI, Melbourne, Mountain View, New York, Ohio, Ottawa, Oxford, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, and West Los Angeles.

If you’d like to talk with other LW-ers face to face, and there is no meetup in your area, consider starting your own meetup; it’s easy (more resources here). Check one out, stretch your rationality skills, and have fun!

If you missed the deadline and wish to have your meetup featured, you can reach me on gmail at frank dot c dot adamek.

In addition to the handy sidebar of upcoming meetups, a meetup overview will continue to be posted on the front page every Friday. These will be an attempt to collect information on all the meetups happening in the next weeks. The best way to get your meetup featured is still to use the Add New Meetup feature, but you’ll now also have the benefit of having your meetup mentioned in a weekly overview. These overview posts will be moved to the discussion section when the new post goes up.

Please note that for your meetup to appear in the weekly meetups feature, you need to post your meetup before the Friday before your meetup!

If you check Less Wrong irregularly, consider subscribing to one or more city-specific mailing list in order to be notified when an irregular meetup is happening: Atlanta, Chicago, Helsinki, London, Marin CA, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Southern California (Los Angeles/​Orange County area), St. Louis, Vancouver, Washington, DC.

If your meetup has a mailing list that you’d like mentioned here, or has become regular and isn’t listed as such, let me know!

Want to help out the common good? If one of the meetups listed as regular has become inactive, let me know so we can present more accurate information to newcomers.

Also: Nickolai Leschov is collecting information on all LW meetups, and is working with Luke Muehlhauser to provide helpful materials and maybe even some coaching. If someone from your meetup isn’t currently in touch with him, shoot him an email for great justice. More information here.

[Helloses]

I don’t have the karma for this yet. Would you be so kind as to add it?

Meetup: Twin Cities, MN (for real this time)

• THE TIME: 15 April 2012 01:00:00PM (-0600)

• THE PLACE: Purple Onion Coffeeshop, 1301 University Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, MN

Hi. Let’s make this work.

Suggested discussion topics would be:

• What do we want this group to do? Rationality practice? Skill sharing? Mastermind group?

• Acquiring guinea pigs for the furtherance of mad science (testing Center for Modern Rationality material)

• Fun—what it is and how to have almost more of it than you can handle

If you’d like to suggest a location closer to you or a different time, please comment to that effect. If you know a good coffeeshop with ample seating in Uptown or South Minneapolis, we could meet there instead. Also comment if you’d like to carpool.

If you’re even slightly interested in this, please join up or at least comment.

Folks, let’s hang out and take it from there.

[FiftyTwo]

Is the Edinburgh UK meetup entirely defunct? No mentions of it for a while.