I don’t trust geolocation.
Also, there’s an advantage in a new user seeing all the meetups, since it accurately tells them how active we are.
And what about people who travel a lot and might check out a meetup in another city if they were reminded about it?
The most straightforward way to have this would be to have a new database table with the following fields: date, location, and hyperlink. A set of trusted users (including one or two from each regular group) could add, edit, or delete records. Periodically, records with dates more one day in the past will be automatically purged.
There’s no need to automate this, since maintaining it takes a small amount of effort relative to the effort of organizing the meetup.
That’s dangerous knowledge. It’s kept secret for a reason. Now that you’ve let the cat out of the bag, campfires have lost some of their magical power.
Also, my family had a recipe for sweet potato casserole that included toasted marshmallows on top. But it was a special thing you could only cook Christmas and Thanksgiving.
what sorts of supergoals are people setting?
And what happens when we have a regular weekly or monthly meetup in every English-speaking city of more than two million? I’ve noticed that the regular meetups (LW/NYC, LW/Bay Area, LW/London, et cetera) don’t bother to announce every meeting. New users have to know to look at the wiki page.
Maybe this proposed widget should include these regular meetups (with links to the relevant wiki page) for all events within the next three weeks.
Here’s another proposal for dealing with meetups: some sort of prominent widget that will show (only upcoming) meetups in chronological order, with links:
Upcoming Meetups
Thu, April 21 — Cambridge, MA, US
Fri, April 22 — Pittsburgh, PA, US
Sat, April 23 — Austin, TX, US
Mon, April 25 — New York, NY, US
Tue, April 26 — New York, NY, US
Wed, April 27 — Berkeley, CA, US
Thu, April 28 — New York, NY, US
Thu, April 28 — Mountain View, CA, US
Sat, April 30 — Shanghai, CN
Sat, April 30 — Paris, FR
Sun, May 1 — London, UK
Sun, May 1 — Cambridge, MA, US
Wed, May 4 — Research Triangle, NC, US
Wed, May 4 — Berkeley, CA, US
Thu, May 5 — Mountain View, CA, US
Fri, May 6 — Melbourne, AU
Wed May 11 — Berkeley, CA, US
Thu, May 12 — Mountain View, CA, US
Sun, May 15 — Cambridge, MA, US
FF.net does that, but they do it wrong. They do it as a fixed percentage of the screen, not a fixed max-width.
Radio buttons might work best:
she / her / herself / hers / her
he / him / himself / his / his
it / it / itself / its / its
they / them / themselves / theirs / their
e / em / eirself / eirs / eir
Don’t use pronouns on me!
Make it easier to read on a small device. This can be accomplished by making the width of the main column defined as a “max-width” in CSS and setting the viewport meta tag in the HTML.
I studied German in school, since I considered myself “not good at languages” and it was the closest language to my native English. When I entered the real world, I kept wishing I had studied Spanish, since one often meets people who speak much better Spanish than English (here in the US).
So when I started the becoming awesome program, I signed up for a once-a-week adult education class in beginning Spanish. I wish I had had the time and opportunity to take a university-level class, since they tend to be more intense and better taught.
I’ve been explicitly working on being awesome for the last few years. A friend introduced me to The Sims and I played long enough to reach my character’s life goal, then realized that I should be working that hard on reaching my own goals.
Results:
A new and better job, about to move to a much cooler town.
A lot closer to my ideal weight and fitness level.
A little more comfortable with myself.
A lot happier.
Several goals temporarily abandoned (learning a language, picking up an instrument). These were difficult to do on my own and consumed time better spent learning other things.
Since joining LW, I’ve had the nebulous goal of knowing all of the material on the site well enough to teach a semester class on it.
A priori knowledge: yes or no? No
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Platonism for mathematical objects, otherwise non-platonic
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? I don’t know what that means.
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? I don’t know what that means.
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? I don’t know what that means.
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? compatibilism, if I understand the definition
God: theism or atheism? atheism
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? I don’t know what that means.
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? I don’t know what that means.
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? I don’t know what that means.
Logic: classical or non-classical? I don’t know what that means.
Mental content: internalism or externalism? I don’t know what that means.
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? I have not made up my mind.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? I don’t know what that means.
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? physicalism
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? I don’t know what that means.
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? I don’t know what that means.
Newcomb’s problem: one box or two boxes? If I believe that Omega really knows me, one box.
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? consequentialism, with the caveat that the human mind can’t do consequentialism well and must substitute rules of thumb.
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? I don’t know what that means.
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? I don’t know what that means.
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? a balance of the three, depending on what produces the best results
Proper names: Fregean or Millian? I don’t know what that means.
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? realism, if I understand the question
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? survival, but it feels scary none-the-less
Time: A-theory or B-theory? I don’t know what that means.
Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don’t switch? switch, but it still feels wrong
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? I don’t know what that means.
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? I don’t know the difference between “inconceivable” and “not metaphysically possible”.
I am still swayed by the slippery-slope argument. How far is it from “you must not offend us“ to “you must believe as we do?”
I propose a first meeting on Wednesday, May 4, at 7pm.
I’ll be moving to Chapel Hill on or soon after May 1, assuming I can find a place to live. I will be eager to meet new people.
I think there is an irrationality in my morality. I’m pretty sure it is immoral for me to eat meat, but I do it anyway.
I had time to do this five or six years ago. You should go back in time and invite the old me.
This seems to be the original source: http://www.atheismresource.com/2010/my-requirements-for-talking-god
To put this in mathematical terms, I consciously try not to use hyperbolic discounting when thinking about the effects of my actions.
In other words, the “Special Committee” will result in slow evaporative cooling?