Lighthaven Sequences Reading Group #9 (Tuesday 11/05)

post by Ben Pace (Benito), Aella, Ronny Fernandez (ronny-fernandez) · 2024-10-31T21:34:15.000Z · ? · GW · 2 comments

Contents

  Edit2: We're in the Bayes Attic! Ask staff for directions.
  If you're still lost, call me at five one oh, nine nine eight, five seven seven one.
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  Ben thinks the right time to pay any attention to election results is a week or two after, once it's probably all been resolved, so he will be holed up in a cozy attic where all political discussion is forbidden, and we will still hold reading discussion groups there for whoever wants to participate...
  (No food provided this week.)
  Some questions to ask yourself about the essays as you read them
  For the future
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Edit2: We're in the Bayes Attic! Ask staff for directions.

If you're still lost, call me at five one oh, nine nine eight, five seven seven one.

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Normally we would invite you to come get old fashioned with us at a Sequences reading group, but this Tuesday Manifold Markets is holding an election watch party at Lighthaven, with 150+ people coming. You are still welcome to come however! The party is open to the public, doors open at 2pm.

Ben thinks the right time to pay any attention to election results is a week or two after, once it's probably all been resolved, so he will be holed up in a cozy attic where all political discussion is forbidden, and we will still hold reading discussion groups there for whoever wants to participate. This week's readings will be about politics.

(No food provided this week.)

We've been roughly working through the sequences highlights [? · GW]. There are no mandatory readings this week, but we strongly recommend reading the following readings and keeping them in mind while you are here, whether you go to a discussion group or not:

  1. A Fable of Science and Politics [LW · GW]
  2. Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided [LW · GW]
  3. Politics is the Mind-Killer [LW · GW]
  4. Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? [LW · GW]

Some questions to ask yourself about the essays as you read them

For the future

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comment by Ben Pace (Benito) · 2024-11-06T05:26:33.242Z · ? · GW

I really enjoyed the discussion tonight. Something different about the mood in a warmly lit, cozy attic.

Here's a write-up [LW(p) · GW(p)] of a discussion we had that ended up with polling over 2,000 people on a question that was raised about the essay Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? [LW · GW].

comment by Ben Pace (Benito) · 2024-11-06T01:49:06.925Z · ? · GW

The place is full of people who are interested in some boring local political event.

Sequence Readers will be meeting up in the Safe Haven attic (Bayes Attic) where no election-discussion is allowed, at around 6:15-6:30. Hope to see you there :) Probably we'll be running late.