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Revision as of 06:42, 17 March 2014

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.

USA

Albany, NY

Atlanta, GA

Austin, TX

Bay Area, CA

Berkeley

San Francisco

  • Hasn't had a meetup in a while
  • Mailing list: lw-sf

South Bay

  • Wiki page
  • We mostly communicate over the Bay Area Less Wrong mailing list
  • Venue: Alternates between the Quixey office and a private residence; every Tuesday, 7pm.
  • Join the mailing list for topic announcements, specific locations, errata, etcetera.
  • Contact: fiddlemath

Sausalito (Marin)

Boston, MA

  • meetup.com group
  • Meets at 2pm every Sunday at the Citadel rationalist house (98 Elm St Apt 1, Somerville, MA)
  • Contact: Vika

Chicago, IL

Columbus, OH

  • Columbus Rationality is a very active group. We hold workshops every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Monday of the month, at 7:30 PM, at the HCCO conference room.
  • Meetup page (posted under HCCO umbrella): [1]
  • Facebook group: [2]
  • Contact: daenerys

Dallas / Fort Worth, TX

  • Meets every Sunday at 1 PM at America's Best Coffee in Arlington
  • Mailing list: [3]

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Coral Gables (Miami),Fl

  • Saturdays at 1pm
  • Meetings are at [4] Starbucks, 1122 S Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, Fl
  • Contact: Michael Moore or text (305) 302- 6522 to confirm

Washington, DC

Madison, WI

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.
  • Self-improvement group meets every other Sunday, 3:30-5:30pm, Private Residence.
  • Mailing list: Main Google Group

Ohio

Phoenix, AZ

  • We currently meet every Tuesday at 12pm for lunch at Engrained in the Arizona State University Memorial Union.
  • Contact: Danny_Hintze

Philadelphia, PA

Pittsburgh, PA

Portland, OR

  • 2014: Next meeting is:
1:00pm on Saturday, 11th January, 2014
Case Study Coffee, 5347 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR
  • Future meetups *MAY* be every two weeks thereafter; however, schedule & location may be changed before each meetup; check the mailing list to know for certain where it will be.
  • Mailing list: LessWrong Portland

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

  • Mailing list: Research Triangle Less Wrong
  • Durham Bi-weekly LW meetups every other Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at Cocoa Cinnamon (420 W Geer St, Durham NC 27701)
  • Durham Bi-weekly HPMoR discussion meetups every other Saturday around 12:00 p.m. at Fullsteam (726 Rigsbee Av, Durham NC 27701)
  • Refer to the calendar for exact meetup dates.

Salt Lake City, UT

  • Google Group/mailing list: [5]
  • and Google Site: [6]

Socorro, NM

Southern California, CA

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

Los Angeles

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

Canada

Toronto

Or: Bars by Dundas subway station, currently upstairs at The Imperial Public Library 54 Dundas St. E.

  • Schedule: Weekly, alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 PM. Join the meetup group for details.
  • Join our Toronto Meetup Group

London

  • We do not yet have regular meetups due to lack of members.
  • Contact Tuxedage for details.

Waterloo

  • Time: Tuesday at 8pm
  • Venue: We have recently moved to UW's Student Life Center and meet for ten minutes in front of the turnkey desk. This is likely to change in the summer, however.
  • Mailing list: Waterloo Google Group

Ottawa

Our next meetup will be a joint event with the Ottawa Skeptics, and will happen on Thursday September 26th from 7-10 pm at the Royal Oak, at 221 Echo Drive. This event is part of a series of presentations by LW user Swimmer963 on rationality topics. The topic will be "Thinking in Bayes", based on the CFAR Bayes curriculum.

Previous meetups have included presentations on books and discussions on HPMOR.

  • Mailing list: Ottawa Google Group Not regularly in use.
  • Meetup.com site: Less Wrong Ottawa will no longer be advertised on Meetup.com, though related Ottawa Skeptics pub events will cover the same interest group. If you are interested in RSVP'ing for the LW meetups, you can send a private message to user Swimmer963.

Nova Scotia

  • Venue: Private residence
  • Contact: [7]

Vancouver

We meet every week, usually somewhere in Kitsilano or downtown.

We do most of our organizing on a mailing list: Vancouver Rationalists

Montreal

Montreal Less Wrong meets up about once a week or so, on varying days of the week to accommodate as many people as possible. We do some structured content (CoZE exercises, de-bugging, other CfAR-inspired exercises) and some social meetups, the proportion depending on the group's interest at the time. The location and time varies; for information, message "bartimaeus" on Less Wrong or apply for membership to our Google Group named "Less Wrong Montreal".

Europe

London, UK

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 (Directions).
  • Schedule: 11am Sundays during University term time. Meetings during university vacations with irregular times and places -- join the mailing list to see when something's going to happen, or to suggest a meetup.
  • Mailing list: CambridgeLessWrong
  • Contact AlexeyM or Jonathan_Lee

Helsinki, Finland

Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue: California Coffee Company Basilica (coffee shop), Szent Istvan ter 4-5. Link
  • Schedule: weekends, see mailing list.
  • Mailing list: BudLessWrong
  • Contact AlexeyM or katyusha

Brussels, Belgium

Brussels meetup group

  • contact : Axel
  • mailing list : lesswrong-brussels
  • venue : La Fleur en Papier Doré: Rue des Alexiens 55 1000 Bruxelles
  • frequency : monthly (usually Saturday at noon)
  • average attendance : see dedicated Brussels meetup group page

Berlin, Germany

Frankfurt/Mainz, Germany

Hamburg, Germany

  • Mailing list: [8]
  • Contact: [9]
  • Schedule: possibly bi-weekly, alternating Friday and Saturday/Sunday

Munich, Germany

  • Mailing list: lesswrong-munich (obsolete)
  • Discussion and announcements (partly in German): here
  • Schedule: irregular

Copenhagen, Denmark

Moscow, Russia

If you want to start meet up group in another Russian city, feel free contact us, we will help with anything we can.

St. Petersburg, Russia

If you want to start meet up group in another Russian city, feel free contact us, we will help with anything we can.

Paris, France

Poznan, Poland

The Netherlands

Find us on meetup.com and The Facebook.

Vienna, Austria

  • Facebook group[10]
  • Meets every month
  • Contact Ratcourse to be added to the mailing list

Bratislava, Slovakia

Australia

Melbourne

  • Rationality Dojos on the first Sunday of each month, held at the Melbourne rationalist share house, Isengard.
  • Social Meetups on the third Friday night of each month at Ben's house.
  • We often organise impromptu social outings and excursions.

See our facebook group or mailing list for event details:

Sydney

  • General meetup on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Will include a combination of social and rationality-improvement exercises.

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/219526434802422/

Canberra

  • Structured meetups on the second Saturday and fourth Friday of the month from 6 pm.
    • Venue: XSite, located upstairs in the ANU Arts Centre: [13]
  • Casual discussion with LW people (and others) can be had at the ANU Computer Science Student Association's weekly Board games night, held weekly from 7 pm until late.
    • Venue: Room N101 of the CSIT building: [14]

Middle East

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Monthly meetup
  • Venue: Variable, sometimes we use VisionMap ([16]) offices at Menahem Begin 7, Ramat-Gan
  • Mailing list: [17]

Virtual

Online Study Hall

The Study Hall is password-protected. The password is "lw".

Blog posts

See also

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