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Free Singularity Institute hosted Rationality Workshops in Berkeley on Saturdays

45 points by rms 15y ago

rms 15y ago
We're doing these on Saturday afternoons at my house near Ashby BART from now until the foreseeable future. Come on by, say hi, and hopefully enjoy an interesting workshop. These are most intended for people without much prior exposure to Less Wrong.
- timClicks 15y ago
  If there are any talks, it would be great if they could be uploaded for those of us who can't attend.
  - rms 15y ago
    Right now we're testing drafts of interactive units of curriculum, so it's not really a talk format that we can record and upload. Hopefully at some point we'll get to a format more digestible online but for now we're testing locally.
JeremyBanks 15y ago
The Center for Modern Rationality? I haven't seen that name before, and apparently neither has Google. Is this the announcement of it as the choice for the spin-off organization which Eliezer mentioned? http://lesswrong.com/lw/9lx/help_name_suggestions_needed_for_rationalityinst/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/9lx/help_name_suggestions_needed_for...
- rms 15y ago
  Not really an official announcement so much as the name we're calling it now until we settle on a decisive, permanent name by the time we launch not-free workshops. But probably since we've just anchored on it we'll stick with it unless we get hiccups in market testing. From what we've seen, the most common response/objection we've heard is "but what do you mean modern?" which in the scheme of objections we've ever heard is a pretty good one, as that's a good conversation starter for about how modern means based on current cognitive science.
lincolnq 15y ago
Awesome. I did the "Rationality Boot Camp" with these folks this past summer, and learned a hell of a lot, and they're a great (and very impressive) group. I would highly recommend taking a Saturday to do this.
itmag 15y ago
LessWrong is one of my favorite sites, highly recommended for debugging yourself and increasing your SAN stat. Is Lukeprog hosting this? Damn, I wish I could meet that dude sometime.

45 points by rms 15y ago

rms 15y ago

We're doing these on Saturday afternoons at my house near Ashby BART from now until the foreseeable future. Come on by, say hi, and hopefully enjoy an interesting workshop. These are most intended for people without much prior exposure to Less Wrong.

timClicks 15y ago
If there are any talks, it would be great if they could be uploaded for those of us who can't attend.
- rms 15y ago
  Right now we're testing drafts of interactive units of curriculum, so it's not really a talk format that we can record and upload. Hopefully at some point we'll get to a format more digestible online but for now we're testing locally.

JeremyBanks 15y ago

The Center for Modern Rationality? I haven't seen that name before, and apparently neither has Google. Is this the announcement of it as the choice for the spin-off organization which Eliezer mentioned? http://lesswrong.com/lw/9lx/help_name_suggestions_needed_for_rationalityinst/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/9lx/help_name_suggestions_needed_for...

rms 15y ago
Not really an official announcement so much as the name we're calling it now until we settle on a decisive, permanent name by the time we launch not-free workshops. But probably since we've just anchored on it we'll stick with it unless we get hiccups in market testing. From what we've seen, the most common response/objection we've heard is "but what do you mean modern?" which in the scheme of objections we've ever heard is a pretty good one, as that's a good conversation starter for about how modern means based on current cognitive science.

lincolnq 15y ago

Awesome. I did the "Rationality Boot Camp" with these folks this past summer, and learned a hell of a lot, and they're a great (and very impressive) group. I would highly recommend taking a Saturday to do this.

itmag 15y ago

LessWrong is one of my favorite sites, highly recommended for debugging yourself and increasing your SAN stat. Is Lukeprog hosting this? Damn, I wish I could meet that dude sometime.