Brussels meetup group
From Lesswrongwiki
- contact : Axel
- venue : Museum of Natural Sciences Rue Vautier 29 B-1000 Brussels
- frequency : monthly (usually Saturday at noon)
- average attendance : 6 persons
- 11/02/2012 4; 17/03/2012 5; 16/04/2012 8
Passed meetups
- the 11th of February 2012
- the 17th of March 2012
- the 16th of April 2012
- the 19th of May 2012
- exercises, including the game "werewolves", to practice lessons learned on social behavior and group dynamics
- "werewolves" skipped as we were not enough players
- recommendation to play equivalents online
- "werewolves" skipped as we were not enough players
- creative thinking puzzle a la Google interview
- http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/c9u/logical_fallacies_poster_a_lesswrong_adaptation/
- agenda
- later that day Serons-nous la dernière génération à mourir de vieillesse ?
- June 8th Who needs a worldview at VUB
- exercises, including the game "werewolves", to practice lessons learned on social behavior and group dynamics
Upcoming meetup
- the 16th of June 2012
To consider
- can be used during any upcoming meetup
- agenda
- the AGI Safety and Impacts conference part of the 5th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
- Fabien, aka Utopiah, is planning to go
- the AGI Safety and Impacts conference part of the 5th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
- some material to explore
- The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One, Wiley April 2012
- The Foreign-Language Effect, Psychological Science April 2012
- Handbook of Risk Theory Springer 2012
- The Minerva Project self-described as an online equivalent of Ivy League
- Worldviews and religiosity: a non-theististic perspective on human experience, meaning and purpose ECCO 2011
- Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am, Wiley 2009
- Procrastination Research Group
- proposal and trial of a weekly individual and anonymous vote on the objectives for our local Meetup in general
- thus influencing the activities for the next meetup
- agenda