Brussels meetup group

• 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
  • 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

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
  • 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