Sorry. I was sure there was previous discussion on this, so I just linked to the first thing that I could find. I didn’t really read what you wrote, to be honest.
KenChen
Karma: 237
Hugh Ristik, who was linked in the article, addresses the question of how to generate good pickup advice:
Feminists tend to criticize male sexual behavior and only explain what not to do. PUAs are exploring what to do. If feminists want to guide the expression of male sexuality in ways other than shouting “don’ts” from the peanut gallery, then they would do well to study the teachings of the seduction community, take from it what they like, and throw away the rest.
[LINK] Ethical Pick-Up Artistry (Clarisse Thorn)
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
– Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
I took the liberty of updating the meetup groups wiki page to include these weekly meetups. I couldn’t find any mention of the regular Sat/Sun monthly meetups, so I didn’t include those.
Also, it would be nice if these meetup posts linked to the wiki, which would allow newcomers to more easily find meetup information in one place (especially since I sometimes refer people from other cities to LW).
I seem to recall that Sweden is “somewhat mountainous”, so I suppose that the correct value is around 2000m.
I remember looking up the population of Libya recently, which is around 6m, and I feel like the population of Central African Republic is a bit lower. I suppose the correct value is around 3m.
“Ease of reading” is at least somewhat subjective, as different people learn and process information differently.
To the extent that the same idea may be presented in different ways, it may be beneficial to have different people write different writeups of the sequences (not necessarily shorter or less dense).
There is a site, True Knowledge, that attempts to answer such questions using methods similar to Watson’s.
It relies on NLP and “facts”; for example, the query “What is the capital of the United States” relies on this fact:
This fact asserts that the relationship ‘”is the capital of”’ exists between “Washington, D.C.” and “the United States” at some point in time. Other facts in the knowledge base assert that this fact applies for the following time periods:
Each “fact” is assessed by a variety of sources, both human and automated. For example, the fact above has, as some of its assessments:
Extracted by [true knowledge] from the infobox on Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States, downloaded 19 May 2009.
and
Fact extracted from Factacular using natural language processing of the following snippit “The United States of America has the capital Washington, D.C..”
Is there a page that lists all recurring LW meetups, everywhere?
Done.