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Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28
- jimrandomh 15y agoI went to the first one of these, and I can personally attest to it having been awesome.
- astrofinch 15y agoSome links on the relevance of rationality to entrepreneurship: http://paulgraham.com/word.html http://paulgraham.com/word.html (see the note at the end especially) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795517 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795517
- xenophanes 15y agoA good one is Why Businessmen Need Philosophy http://www.amazon.com/Why-Businessmen-Need-Philosophy-AtlasShrugged/dp/0451232690/ http://www.amazon.com/Why-Businessmen-Need-Philosophy-AtlasS...
- astrofinch 15y agoHm, I don't think rationality and objectivism are quite the same thing. I was thinking more along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases and http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374275637 http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
- dbaupp 15y agoRationality =/= objectivism. (At least, not in the context of LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/ )
- fuelfive 15y agoA friend of mine attended last year. He described it as "the most socially awkward people you've ever met telling you how to be less socially awkward".
- vitno 15y agothat doesn't sound like the description at all...
- Eliezer 15y agoIt's possible that somebody is confusing this with an LW meetup, or possibly the Megacamp (that didn't work nearly as well as the one-week Minicamp which is why we aren't repeating it), or something else. Attendees of the previous Minicamp were nearly unanimous about how awesome it was, and they weren't socially awkward.
- SilasX 15y agoWell, those who publicly spoke about it were unanimous in its being awesome. SIAI isn't very open about stats for the remainder. Also, I don't think a regular LW meetup would be described as involving "teaching people to be less socially awkward". I've followed LessWrong, and I hadn't heard anything, until the GP, about it giving off such an aura of "the blind leading the blind".
- rms 15y agoI expect that Scott's friend generally had a great experience at the camp and made a somewhat flippant and self-deprecating comment that was appropriate in a social context, but wasn't Scott's friend's most important takeaway from the experience. You can see all of the feedback to the survey question asking what about the camp could be improved here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/b98/minicamps_on_rationality_and_awesomeness_may_1113/678g http://lesswrong.com/lw/b98/minicamps_on_rationality_and_awe...
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