Less Wrong meetup groups

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

Atlanta, GA

• 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, Thursdays, 7pm
• Hosted by: Shannon Friedman and Divia Melwani
• For venue information: Email Shannon or Divia.

Cambridge, MA

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

Chicago, IL

• Mailing list: Less Wrong Chicago

Washington, DC

• Meets Sunday afternoons, sometimes at a private residence
• Mailinglist: Less Wrong DC
• For venue information, PM Benquo or atucker.

Madison, WI

• Meets (roughly) every other Tuesday at Sector67
• Mailing list: Less Wrong Madison

New York City, NY

The NYC meetup group is split into various groups based on interest. For more information on how to attend, please join the relevant mailing list.

Main Group

For general discussion, social activities, and games nights.

• Weekly, Tuesday, 7-11pm, Private Residence
• Mailing list: Main Google Group

Self-Improvement Group

For active self-improvement via goal-setting, commitment, and reinforcement, and getting things done.

• Weekly, Thursday, 7-11pm, Private Residence
• Mailing list: Self Improvement Group

Bayesian Conspiracy: NYC

For discussion of rationality topics related to the sequences / Columbia University student education group.

• Weekly, Monday, 8-9pm, Columbia University Campus (often room 316 in the Hamilton building)
• Mailing list: Columbia Group

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

• Mailing list: Research Triangle Less Wrong

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.

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

• On break for the summer. Join the mailing list if you're in town and want to try to get people together anyway.
• Mailing list: Less Wrong St Louis

Canada

Toronto

• Venue: Bars by St. George subway station, currently Bedford Academy.
• Schedule: Biweekly, Thursdays at 8 PM. Join the mailing list for details.
• Mailing List: Toronto 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.

Helsinki, Finland

• Helsinki meetup group

Australia

Melbourne

• Venue: Trike (usually - check the meetup post)
• 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