Less Wrong meetup groups

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Less Wrong members sometimes arrange meetups to meet each other in meat space. Some geographic areas have groups that do this regularly. Also see: Less Wrong meetup group resources.

Contents 1 USA 1.1 Atlanta, GA 1.2 Austin, TX 1.3 Bay Area, CA 1.3.1 Berkeley 1.3.2 San Francisco 1.3.3 Tortuga (in Mountain View) 1.3.4 Sausalito (Marin) 1.4 Cambridge, MA 1.5 Chicago, IL 1.6 Washington, DC 1.7 Madison, WI 1.8 New York City, NY 1.9 Ohio 1.10 Philadelphia, PA 1.11 Pittsburgh, PA 1.12 Portland, OR 1.13 Research Triangle, NC (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) 1.14 Salt Lake City, UT 1.15 Southern California, CA 1.15.1 Los Angeles 1.16 Seattle, WA 1.17 St Louis, MO 2 Canada 2.1 Toronto 2.2 Waterloo 2.3 Ottawa 2.4 Vancouver 3 Europe 3.1 London, UK 3.2 Oxford, UK 3.3 Cambridge, UK 3.4 Helsinki, Finland 4 Australia 4.1 Melbourne 5 Blog posts 6 See also

USA

Atlanta, GA

• Venue: ChocoLaté Coffee in Decatur, 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month at 6:30pm.
• Mailing list

Austin, TX

• Venue: Caffe Medici, on Saturdays at 1:30pm.

Bay Area, CA

• Mailing list: BayAreaLessWrong

Berkeley

• Venue: Oxford Street Starbucks, on Wednesdays at 7pm

San Francisco

• Venue: Green Papaya. Meets some Tuesdays at 7pm
• Mailing list: lw-sf

Tortuga (in Mountain View)

• Mailing list
• Venue: Private residence, every other Tuesday, 7pm
• Hosted by: Cord
• For venue information: Email Cord.

Sausalito (Marin)

• Venue: 475 Gate 5 Road, Suite #300, Sausalito, California 94903, Tuesdays, 7pm
• Hosted by: Gustave Wuterich, Nevin Freeman
• For further information: Email Gustave or stop by the SF Bay Area discussion group for further contact details.

Cambridge, MA

• meetup.com group
• First and third Sunday of every month, 2pm

Chicago, IL

• Mailing list: Less Wrong Chicago

Washington, DC

• Recurring meetup being rescheduled.
• Mailing list: Less Wrong DC
• For venue information, PM Benquo or atucker.

Madison, WI

• Meets (roughly) every Monday at the Barriques on Monroe St.
• Mailing list: Less Wrong Madison

New York City, NY

The NYC meetup group is very large and meets frequently. The NYC community was profiled here as a case study. Please join the mailing list!

• Weekly, Tuesday, 7-11pm, Private Residence. Occasionally on Thursdays as well.
• Mailing list: Main Google Group

Ohio

• Meets on the third Sunday at the Max & Erma's in Wilmington (between Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton)
• Irregular city-specific meetups. Join mailing list for details!
• Mailing list: Less Wrong: Ohio

Philadelphia, PA

• We are in the process of establishing a regular meetup group and time. Please feel free to join us!
• Mailing list: LessWrong Philadelphia

Pittsburgh, PA

• Mailing list: Pittsburgh Less Wrong

Portland, OR

• Current schedule: Every two weeks, Saturday 12-2 PM. North Portland Lucky Lab Pub on Killingsworth. Next meeting is February 25th, 2012.
• Mailing list: LessWrong Portland

Research Triangle, NC (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill)

• Mailing list: Research Triangle Less Wrong

Salt Lake City, UT

• Google Group/mailing list: [1]

• and Google Site: [2]

Southern California, CA

• Typical Venue: Restaurants in Los Angeles and Orange County
• Schedule: About once a month, on a weekend
• Primary Organizer: JenniferRM JenniferRM
• Mailing List: Less Wrong Southern California Announcements
• Calendar: SoCal LW Meetups

For help with transportation, check for carpool opportunities in meetup announcements and comments.

Los Angeles

• Biweekly, Wednesdays, 7pm - 9pm, in the 2nd floor wine bar of the Westside Tavern in the Westside Pavillion.
• Mailing List: Less Wrong Southern California Announcements

Seattle, WA

• Meets the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month in the U-District, see mailing list for details.
• Eastside meetups are happening on an ad-hoc schedule, see mailing list for details.
• Mailing list: LW-Seattle

St Louis, MO

• We have a new Less Wrong St. Louis group at meetup.com.

Canada

Toronto

• Venue: Bars by St. George subway station, currently The Duke of York.
• Schedule: Biweekly, Tuesdays at 8 PM. Join the mailing list for details.
• Mailing List: Toronto Google Group

Waterloo

• Venue: Williams Fresh Cafe, on Mondays at 8pm.
• Mailing list: Waterloo Google Group

Ottawa

We're still working out where and how often the group will meet.

• Mailing list: Ottawa Google Group

Vancouver

We don't yet have a regular venue or meeting time, but currently (early August 2011) are meeting downtown about once a week.

• Mailing list: Vancouver Rationalists

Europe

London, UK

• Venue: variable, see list and LessWrong. Look for the Art Lebedev paperclip sign on our table.
• Schedule: First Sunday of every second month (January/March/May 2011 so far), plus irregular meets every two to three weeks.
• Mailing list: LessWrongLondon

Oxford, UK

• Oxford Rationality Meetups
• Venue: Exeter College
• Schedule: Saturday termtimes - normally 6-8pm.
• Contact Larks or AlexFlint for details.

Cambridge, UK

• Venue: JCR, Trinity College
• Schedule: 11am Sundays, plus irregular meetings, see mailing list.
• Mailing list: CambridgeLessWrong
• Contact AlexeyM or Jonathan_Lee

Helsinki, Finland

• Helsinki meetup group

Australia

Melbourne

• Three regular meetups: Practical rationality (1st Fri each month), outreach (schedule still unsettled), and social (3rd Fri each month).
• Venue: Practical rationality at Trike (usually - check the meetup post), social at Ben's house (look for a meetup post with more hints).
• Mailing list: Melbourne Less Wrong

Blog posts

• Humans are not automatically strategic by AnnaSalamon
• Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter by Cosmos
• Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians by Eliezer Yudkowsky

See also

• The Craft and the Community (sequence)
• Less Wrong meetup group resources
• Yearly LW site visitors by city