Where are we?
post by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-02T21:51:24.646Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 313 commentsI'm enjoying lesswrong.com a lot so far, and it sounds like the last LW/OB meetup was a lot of fun. MBlume asks:
So far there've only been LW/OB meetups in the Bay area -- is there any way we could plot the geographic distribution of LW members and determine whether there are other spots where we could get a good meetup going?
I don't think that there are so many of us that we need an automated system for this; the threading system should be enough.I'll post a few top-level comments for various parts of the world, and encourage you all to follow up and tell us where you are. Ideally, find a comment that has where you live in it already and add "me too".
I'll try to keep this post updated with useful things. I can't wait to play Paranoid Debating!
Edit: Please don't post where you live in a new top-level comment! Try to find a comment referring to the rough geographic region you live in and post under that; it'll make this post easier to navigate. I've divided the world into three (North America, Europe, everywhere else); posting under those comments will help. Thanks!
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comment by matt · 2009-04-03T21:36:30.926Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The Less Wrong visit map:
- United States 31,827
- United Kingdom 6,662
- Canada 4,399
- Australia 2,943
- Finland 1,726
- Germany 1,502
- Netherlands 1,001
- Sweden 989
- New Zealand 750
- France 691
- Russia 577
- Ireland 524
- Brazil 434
- Israel 410
- Denmark 390
- Croatia 331
- India 327
- Belgium 322
- Japan 293
- Poland 288
- Austria 261
- Norway 247
- China 233
- Italy 192
- Spain 190
And some more detail:
- Visitors by Country.pdf)
- Visitors by city-by-city.pdf)
- US visitors by city-USA-by-city.pdf)
- UK visitors by city-UK-by-city.pdf)
- Canadian visitors by city-Canada-by-city.pdf)
- Australian visitors by city-Australia-by-city.pdf)
(edit: credit to Google Analytics for all of the heavy lifting in this comment)
Replies from: AllanCrossman, Suryc11, army1987, khafra↑ comment by AllanCrossman · 2009-04-04T17:36:20.342Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This map would be better if it was based on visits divided by population. Currently it shows America as much darker than Britain even though Britain has about the same per capita LW readership... (and a considerably higher readership per landmass).
(Of course, getting the population for each country would be a right pain, so I don't blame you.)
Replies from: ciphergoth↑ comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-11T14:40:49.360Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This map would be best of all if it were an LW cartogram!
↑ comment by A1987dM (army1987) · 2011-12-04T17:50:32.802Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The colour coding should be based on visits per unit area or per unit population, not total visit...
↑ comment by khafra · 2009-04-19T22:36:36.813Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Great stat visualization and breakdown! But it's not in first normal form: There's two Bellevues, and the St. Petersburg entry doesn't specify whether it's Florida (which has a blob in the St. Petersburg/Tampa area, and no entry for Tampa) or Russia (which seems to be the origin of a few prominent LW'ers). I'm not sure of the most efficient way to resolve the ambiguities.
Replies from: mattcomment by robzahra · 2009-04-02T23:59:20.586Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This post is a good idea, but wouldn't it be easier for everyone to join the less wrong facebook group? I'm not positive, but I think the geographical sorting can then be easily viewed automatically. You could then invite the subgroups to their own group, and easily send group messages.
Replies from: ciphergoth↑ comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-03T13:15:29.086Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I thought of that, but quite a few folk seemed to object to the idea of using Facebook here, so I thought this was the safest option. I'm in the Facebook group too, as Paul Crowley.
comment by Epiphany · 2012-09-23T20:01:55.685Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The location I'm providing is a little vague because I want to say where I am, but posting that as a female almost guarantees a loss of anonymity in various contexts. I'm in the Western United States. For those using find in page, my region includes:
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-02T21:52:35.294Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in Europe.
Replies from: gaffa, infotropism, Emile, ciphergoth, Marshall, XiXiDu, Bongo, Richard_Kennaway, Viliam_Bur, mindbound, emil, ChrisPine, steven0461↑ comment by gaffa · 2009-04-03T20:32:53.252Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post here if you live in Sweden.
Replies from: Henrik_Jonsson, Jens, luff, NihilCredo, gaffa↑ comment by Henrik_Jonsson · 2009-07-18T00:13:19.053Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Umeå, Sweden.
Replies from: Dojan↑ comment by NihilCredo · 2010-08-07T10:12:14.651Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Uppsala, Sweden.
↑ comment by infotropism · 2009-04-03T18:44:17.884Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
People of Belgium, unite behind me ... if any.
Replies from: Plasmon↑ comment by Emile · 2009-04-03T05:59:33.316Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in France.
Replies from: Emile, rnollet, Gyrodiot, pangel, MasterGrape, Morendil↑ comment by MasterGrape · 2010-09-21T07:36:02.947Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live near Carcassonne
↑ comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-02T21:54:21.948Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in London, UK.
Replies from: MichaelHoward, marc, whpearson, Roko, strangeloop, Larks, Alexandros, mathemajician↑ comment by MichaelHoward · 2009-04-02T22:09:30.604Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm in London, and till we organize something I recommend the UKTA/ExtroBritannia meets.
Replies from: taw, JulianMorrison, taryneast↑ comment by taw · 2009-04-02T23:05:39.638Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Another Londoner here. By power of statistics there should be enough of us to organize it even the next weekend if we wanted.
If anybody else wants to organize that, go ahead, I don't really have much experience in this. But in case there are no other volunteers I'll do it. So if any Londoners interested in rationalist meetup in some coffeeshop or pub, just email me at Tomasz.Wegrzanowski@gmail.com If there will be 5 or more interested people, I'll suggest some times and places and hopefully we can set the first meetup this way.
The first one is always the hardest, the next one will hopefully be less ad hoc than that.
Replies from: ciphergoth↑ comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-02T23:10:23.082Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'd go for a weekday evening in a pub in town to kick off...
Replies from: JulianMorrison, taryneast↑ comment by JulianMorrison · 2009-04-02T23:29:22.483Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Weekdays are useless to anyone not actually in London - even close by, it would take too long to travel in after work.
Also, pubs are hugely overrated for serious talk, where you want less echoes, less music, less TV and less shouty people. Try a Starbucks?
Edit: meeting near a station or at least Zone 1 tube is also a plus.
↑ comment by taryneast · 2010-12-12T11:39:23.280Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm up for that - Tue/Wed/Thu (tho not in silly season). Alternatively, a weekend midday/afternoon, unless you'd like to come out to Windsor. :)
Replies from: ciphergoth↑ comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2010-12-13T06:32:18.817Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The post you're replying to is very old, but see Calling LW Londoners - a meetup on Sunday 2011-01-02 seems likely!
Replies from: taryneast↑ comment by JulianMorrison · 2009-04-02T22:48:19.200Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Reading, UK, and UKTA is excellent.
↑ comment by taryneast · 2010-12-12T11:37:54.161Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm in Slough - work in London. This thread is a couple years old, though, any current activity?
Replies from: MichaelHoward↑ comment by MichaelHoward · 2010-12-12T13:50:45.217Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Hi. Yes, it's still going. The last meeting "The neuropsychology of self control - and its implications for AI and brain simulation" was on 13 November. See my links above for future meetings, and hope to see you there :)
Replies from: taryneast↑ comment by taryneast · 2010-12-12T15:51:47.593Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Cool. Thanks. That does sound interesting.
I did check out the group page, but I noticed that you can't see the calendar unless you're a member... but I don't like to join unless I can see the calendar of past events (to see if they're local/relevant/interesting etc)... catch-22 sometimes ;)
Of course, I could join, look, then unjoin - but that's far more effort... especially when you have to be approved first.
Replies from: MichaelHoward↑ comment by MichaelHoward · 2010-12-13T13:37:17.792Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
but I don't like to join unless I can see the calendar of past events (to see if they're local/relevant/interesting etc)... catch-22 sometimes ;)
Hmm... that does seem a little foot-shooting, unless you join too many groups and want a reason not to ;)
There's nothing in the ExtroBritannia list's calendar though, but you can see the events on the blog.
Replies from: taryneast↑ comment by taryneast · 2010-12-13T15:57:57.472Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
unless you join too many groups and want a reason not to ;)
That would be an accurate description of my life ;)
Currently I am interested in way too many things - and have a habit of joining up to all of them to see if I'm interested enough to continue going along...
Unfortunately I am limited by time from going to everything I'd like.
↑ comment by Roko · 2009-04-02T23:34:13.884Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Edinburgh, republic of Scotland ;-)
I come down to london fairly frequently. it is cheap if I have notice of a month.
Replies from: AlanCrowe, sark↑ comment by AlanCrowe · 2009-04-03T10:12:10.303Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm also in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Replies from: AllanCrossman↑ comment by AllanCrossman · 2009-04-03T11:31:32.941Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Aye, me too.
↑ comment by strangeloop · 2010-01-26T16:41:23.479Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
London as well.
↑ comment by Larks · 2009-08-11T23:23:24.229Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Edit: Also Oxford, UK in termtime.
Replies from: oliverbeatson↑ comment by oliverbeatson · 2009-09-11T00:22:05.851Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Another Eastbourne, East Sussex.
↑ comment by Alexandros · 2009-04-24T16:00:59.209Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Guildford, UK. Definitely up for any London meetups.
↑ comment by mathemajician · 2009-04-04T10:58:41.093Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Yay London
↑ comment by XiXiDu · 2009-04-03T09:51:12.640Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Germany, NRW, Gütersloh
Replies from: Sebastian_Hagen, SimonF, Tripitaka, yrff_jebat, jasticE, None↑ comment by Sebastian_Hagen · 2009-04-03T11:08:26.394Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
↑ comment by Simon Fischer (SimonF) · 2011-03-23T13:51:59.945Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Cologne, Germany
Xixidu, are you interested in a mini-lw-meetup in nrw?
↑ comment by Tripitaka · 2011-03-21T14:16:20.888Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Gießen, Germany.
Replies from: Tripitaka, TrE↑ comment by Tripitaka · 2011-04-07T13:56:16.736Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I suspect there may be some undercover-readers out of Frankfurt am Main, see: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lesswrong.com# " It has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of Frankfurt Am Main (#3,397)."
If there are, hands up by any means, we could have enough people for a german meet-up!
↑ comment by yrff_jebat · 2010-10-28T13:52:45.677Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Berlin, Germany
↑ comment by jasticE · 2010-09-21T20:23:06.150Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Munich, Germany
Replies from: wallowinmaya↑ comment by David Althaus (wallowinmaya) · 2011-05-02T22:17:47.569Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
me too.
↑ comment by Bongo · 2009-04-02T22:38:40.183Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in Finland.
Replies from: Kaj_Sotala, vizikahn, Bongo, Jonii↑ comment by Kaj_Sotala · 2009-04-05T15:33:39.322Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Helsinki here.
↑ comment by Richard_Kennaway · 2009-04-02T22:10:26.559Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Norwich, UK.
Replies from: abigailgem, gjm↑ comment by abigailgem · 2009-04-03T11:49:21.518Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Newport, South Wales (Casnewydd, De Cymru). Rarely in London, willing to travel to Bristol or Swansea.
↑ comment by gjm · 2009-04-03T09:09:24.349Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Cambridge, UK.
Replies from: PaulWright↑ comment by PaulWright · 2009-04-03T23:03:54.852Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Me too! (But gjm knew that).
Replies from: gjm↑ comment by Viliam_Bur · 2011-10-13T18:56:22.455Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Slovakia, Bratislava
↑ comment by steven0461 · 2009-04-03T12:21:10.756Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in the Netherlands.
Replies from: steven0461, Lethalmud↑ comment by steven0461 · 2009-04-03T12:21:19.824Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Amsterdam.
Replies from: Morendil↑ comment by Morendil · 2013-07-04T14:30:25.213Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Do you still live there? I'll be there on vacation next week, and I'd be interested in meeting up (general policy of looking for opportunities to meet people IRL that I only know online - if that's not your cup of tea, I'd totally understand).
comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-02T21:52:08.205Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in the US or Canada.
Replies from: Michelle, PhilGoetz, swestrup, CronoDAS, evtujo, GuySrinivasan, Chase_Johnson, Rune, BrandonReinhart, Aurini, Cyan, badger, janos, MichaelGR, jimrandomh, MBlume, kithpendragon, windmil, r_claypool, JackEmpty, hewhocutsdown, NancyLebovitz, wnoise, Pavitra, Nick_Tarleton, mattnewport, SoullessAutomaton, byrnema↑ comment by Michelle · 2009-04-07T08:18:54.612Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Victoria, BC
Replies from: Owen_Richardson, Eoghanalbar↑ comment by Owen_Richardson · 2011-04-09T00:23:57.864Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Also Victoria, BC.
(Same person as user "Eoghanalbar", which I'm not using anymore.)
↑ comment by Eoghanalbar · 2010-08-08T22:55:10.229Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Also Victoria, BC. Home of the sasquatch and pacific tree octopus, and where the conservative party is named 'the liberals'.
↑ comment by PhilGoetz · 2009-04-03T03:01:05.203Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Washington DC.
Im in ur capital advizin ur prezident.
Replies from: MBlume, ChrisBrown, Jack, DSimon, Document, Hook, RobinZ, Benquo↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-03T16:29:47.777Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
glad I'm not the only Bayesian who loves OotS
Replies from: Eliezer_Yudkowsky↑ comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer_Yudkowsky) · 2009-04-03T16:36:08.998Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
rest assured...
↑ comment by ChrisBrown · 2009-04-03T21:09:41.478Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
In the NoVA/DC area as well.
↑ comment by swestrup · 2009-04-03T04:15:56.242Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Montreal, Canada
Replies from: Pierre-Andre, Nebu↑ comment by Pierre-Andre · 2009-04-03T13:56:18.498Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Québec, Qc, Canada.
↑ comment by CronoDAS · 2009-04-03T01:10:20.132Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live within what you consider easy driving distance from New York City.
Replies from: robzahra, Zvi, crazypaki, Nick_Tarleton, CronoDAS, xamdam, olimay, dreeves, glenra, MichaelBishop↑ comment by robzahra · 2009-04-05T16:46:37.863Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
NYC area: Rob Zahra, AlexU, and Michael Vassar sometimes...
↑ comment by Nick_Tarleton · 2009-04-03T01:56:09.544Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
What if you do, but don't have a car?
(Note: I don't regardless.)
↑ comment by Mike Bishop (MichaelBishop) · 2009-04-03T20:54:37.814Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I visit NYC several times a year - whatever that's worth. I live in Chicago though.
↑ comment by evtujo · 2009-04-04T14:41:32.986Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Montana
Replies from: chesh↑ comment by chesh · 2009-04-13T21:03:35.641Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Salt Lake City. Seems we're the entire mountain time delegation.
Replies from: hamnox↑ comment by GuySrinivasan · 2009-04-04T01:04:52.831Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in the Pacific Northwest.
Replies from: GuySrinivasan, ameriver↑ comment by GuySrinivasan · 2009-04-04T01:05:36.254Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Redmond, WA.
↑ comment by Chase_Johnson · 2009-04-03T17:44:16.559Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live within driving distance of Dallas, TX.
Replies from: SilasBarta, Simulacra, MrHen, Chase_Johnson, pdf23ds↑ comment by SilasBarta · 2009-10-26T21:27:09.343Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Waco, TX. (Prompt reply, I know...)
↑ comment by Simulacra · 2009-04-17T00:22:49.156Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Sugar Land (Houston area), not exactly day trip material but with sufficient notice I could make something.
Replies from: Chase_Johnson↑ comment by Chase_Johnson · 2009-04-27T16:47:21.051Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
We do seem to be thin on the ground in Texas.
↑ comment by Chase_Johnson · 2009-04-03T17:44:30.828Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Richardson.
Replies from: clay↑ comment by BrandonReinhart · 2009-04-03T10:15:13.861Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Seattle, WA
↑ comment by Cyan · 2009-04-03T03:23:03.966Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Ottawa, Canada.
Replies from: MichaelGR↑ comment by MichaelGR · 2009-04-03T04:15:20.656Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm moving to Ottawa on May 1st.
How many people do we need to have quorum?
Replies from: Cyan, LongInTheTooth↑ comment by LongInTheTooth · 2009-04-03T15:44:03.252Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Ottawa, Canada
↑ comment by badger · 2009-04-03T02:51:23.642Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Phoenix, Arizona
Replies from: AndySimpson↑ comment by AndySimpson · 2009-04-03T04:22:58.670Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Wohoo! Glendale.
↑ comment by jimrandomh · 2009-04-02T22:14:58.426Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in New England
Replies from: imaxwell, jimrandomh, None, thomblake↑ comment by jimrandomh · 2009-04-02T22:15:19.456Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in Massachusetts
Replies from: Alicorn, adb, grobstein, James_Miller, jimrandomh, Nick_Roy↑ comment by adb · 2009-04-03T17:21:17.013Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Medford, MA. Enjoyed the OB meetup on the MIT campus, which was convenient since I work across the street. I'd be up to renting a car and driving to Amherst or New Hampshire for a meetup on a weekend, especially if there was time for hiking.
↑ comment by James_Miller · 2009-04-02T23:02:33.903Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in South Deerfield, MA and work in Northampton
Contact me at EconomicProf@Yahoo.com
↑ comment by jimrandomh · 2009-04-02T22:15:38.797Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Bedford, MA
↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-02T21:57:18.506Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in California
Replies from: None, dfranke, zntneo, MBlume↑ comment by dfranke · 2009-04-02T22:32:03.349Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in the Bay Area.
Replies from: Eliezer_Yudkowsky, John_Maxwell_IV, rhollerith, orthonormal, dfranke, ianshakil, DanMeyer, ata↑ comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer_Yudkowsky) · 2009-04-03T10:12:51.569Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Redwood City, at least for now.
↑ comment by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2009-04-04T01:44:43.600Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Santa Clara, but I don't have a car, so...
↑ comment by rhollerith · 2009-04-03T16:11:00.841Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Marin County.
↑ comment by orthonormal · 2009-04-03T07:48:05.424Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Berkeley.
↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-02T21:57:42.092Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in Southern California
Replies from: MBlume, haig, outlawpoet, JGWeissman, MBlume↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-03T19:46:07.177Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I've started a meetup group for LessWrongers in Southern California
↑ comment by outlawpoet · 2009-04-08T19:04:58.391Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Playa del Rey, by the beach just south of Santa Monica and West of LA proper.
↑ comment by JGWeissman · 2009-04-02T22:24:08.594Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in Orange County
Replies from: Yasser_Elassal, ianshakil, Matt_Simpson, JGWeissman↑ comment by Yasser_Elassal · 2009-04-03T21:23:30.878Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in San Clemente, but I'd be willing to drive anywhere in Orange County for an occasional meetup.
↑ comment by Matt_Simpson · 2009-04-03T05:01:23.857Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'll be at Chapman University in Orange for 6 weeks this summer. I imagine The city of Orange is in Orange County, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Replies from: MBlume↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-03T05:44:31.937Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
yes indeed it is =)
it's about half an hour north of lake forrest, if memory serves.
Which six weeks? That might be a good time to shoot for a so-cal meetup
Replies from: Matt_Simpson↑ comment by Matt_Simpson · 2009-04-03T16:19:34.598Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
June 29 to August 7
↑ comment by JGWeissman · 2009-04-02T22:24:54.492Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I live in Lake Forest
Replies from: MBlume↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-02T21:57:59.157Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in Santa Barbara County
Replies from: HalFinney, jimmy, MBlume↑ comment by jimmy · 2009-04-03T04:26:33.234Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm in Isla Vista
Replies from: MBlume, MBlume↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-03T19:39:20.622Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm having some trouble responding to your PM, so:
I'm working for prof Richman, though more "trying to get up to speed" than "working" right at the moment. I just had Nelson for my particle class the last two quarters -- it was a lot of fun.
So I was thinking if Hal was up for it the three of us could grab some dinner in the next week or so -- that work for you?
Also: LW SB group
Replies from: jimmy↑ comment by kithpendragon · 2012-02-22T21:23:37.575Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Harrisburg, PA
↑ comment by r_claypool · 2011-06-15T03:37:47.451Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Nashville, Tennessee
↑ comment by hewhocutsdown · 2010-12-20T20:20:50.265Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Replies from: jwhendy↑ comment by NancyLebovitz · 2010-08-08T01:06:52.010Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you're in the Philadelphia area.
Replies from: Document, NancyLebovitz↑ comment by NancyLebovitz · 2010-08-08T01:07:28.102Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm in Philadelphia.
↑ comment by Pavitra · 2009-10-06T06:05:55.959Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Fairfield, Iowa.
Replies from: TobyBartels↑ comment by TobyBartels · 2010-08-07T17:35:35.862Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I dub Pavitra's post the beginning of the Great Plains thread.
Lincoln NE
↑ comment by Nick_Tarleton · 2009-07-31T22:39:35.661Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Pittsburgh, PA
Replies from: Document↑ comment by mattnewport · 2009-04-16T17:45:58.572Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Vancouver, Canada.
↑ comment by SoullessAutomaton · 2009-04-02T22:51:33.387Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live in the midwestern USA or nearby areas of Canada, ideally roughly within a day's drive of Chicago.
EDIT: For anyone in this area, Penguicon may be a good location for a meetup. It's a mixed sci-fi/open-source/general-geekery convention in the Detroit area, and just might possibly have at least one guest that LW readers would be interested to meet. I probably won't be there this year, though.
Replies from: Sniffnoy, HA2, Technologos, NicSmith, Dustin, aleph, venusatuluri, Matt_Simpson, Psy-Kosh, arundelo, hhadzimu, Insert_Idionym_Here, Perplexed, TobyBartels, Unnamed, LeBleu, NQbass7↑ comment by Technologos · 2009-04-03T04:25:49.944Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
South Side of Chicago
Replies from: MichaelBishop↑ comment by Mike Bishop (MichaelBishop) · 2009-04-03T20:57:10.871Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Me too. U of C affiliated?
Replies from: Technologos↑ comment by Technologos · 2009-04-04T18:37:43.271Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Yep! I'll get in touch.
↑ comment by venusatuluri · 2009-04-03T05:03:15.260Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Columbus, Ohio
↑ comment by Matt_Simpson · 2009-04-03T05:00:20.094Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Near St. Louis, MO or Ames, IA, depending on the time of year.
↑ comment by Insert_Idionym_Here · 2012-01-15T04:32:31.933Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I used to live in Ann Arbor, rather recently. I live in Saginaw now.
↑ comment by TobyBartels · 2010-08-07T17:36:11.216Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Lincoln NE
I can reach Chicago in a day, but Detroit is too far.
comment by DragonGod · 2017-08-24T21:22:25.566Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm from Nigeria.
Replies from: oge↑ comment by oge · 2017-08-26T13:25:20.626Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Where in Nigeria?
Replies from: DragonGodcomment by steven0461 · 2009-10-31T05:29:49.493Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Would it be a good idea to bump this to the front page every now and then?
Replies from: Douglas_Knight↑ comment by Douglas_Knight · 2009-11-01T00:54:54.489Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Would it be a good idea to bump [the Where are we? thread] to the front page every now and then?
Maybe a link to it in the text of the monthly open thread?
Replies from: Vladimir_Nesov↑ comment by Vladimir_Nesov · 2009-11-01T11:41:38.099Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
And to the Welcome thread.
comment by BrandonReinhart · 2009-04-03T10:14:14.582Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Seattle, WA
comment by [deleted] · 2009-04-03T07:48:59.943Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Shanghai, China
comment by PhilGoetz · 2009-04-03T03:00:21.080Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Why are people voting the comments on this post up and down? 7 completely neutral comments expressing where people live have been voted down to zero. That's crazy.
Replies from: MBlume↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-03T03:17:09.514Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
cipher and I removed the upvotes from our own comments since we were making lots of comments to give structure to the thread, and did not feel it was fair for us to earn karma from them.
Replies from: Eliezer_Yudkowsky, steven0461↑ comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer_Yudkowsky) · 2009-04-03T06:16:17.554Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Don't worry about it, we'll get rid of karma for self-upvotes later.
Replies from: komponisto, ciphergoth↑ comment by komponisto · 2009-04-03T06:24:16.985Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
So (in other words) you want to require actual upvotes (from others) to earn karma, rather than merely avoiding downvotes. Are you sure this is a good idea?
Why shouldn't one's own vote count?
Replies from: Emile↑ comment by Emile · 2009-04-03T08:03:45.245Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Because right now user karma correlates more strongly with post count than with post quality. You get what you measure, so that needs to be fixed.
Replies from: komponisto↑ comment by komponisto · 2009-04-04T01:44:04.113Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
But why shouldn't it correlate with post count? That way the incentive structure encourages active participation; under the system Eliezer prefers, people might be tempted to hold back.
Is this there a need to correct things in this direction? Are we getting too many low-quality posts and comments?
(I also think that the automatic self-upvote makes sense on the grounds that making a comment should itself be considered a statement about what sort of comments the user would like to see more of. If not, the user can always undo the upvote.)
Replies from: Emile, SoullessAutomaton↑ comment by Emile · 2009-04-04T07:34:37.387Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
But why shouldn't it correlate with post count? That way the incentive structure encourages active participation; under the system Eliezer prefers, people might be tempted to hold back.
Since comments tend to get upvoted more often than downvoted, why would people hold back? A comment's 'expected karma' would still be positive :)
We can still add an extra "post count" to a user's profile if anybody needs to know that.
And no, I don't think that this site is glutted with low-quality comments, but it's young and I already can't keep track of all that's being said, so a gentle nudge in the "quality over quantity" direction would be a Good Thing.
↑ comment by SoullessAutomaton · 2009-04-04T01:52:21.122Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
But why shouldn't it correlate with post count? That way the incentive structure encourages active participation; under the system Eliezer prefers, people might be tempted to hold back.
That depends on whether or not total karma is supposed to indicate anything meaningful. As is, it will mostly indicate how early a member joined and how active they've been.
↑ comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-03T08:05:50.880Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Unless you're confident that later will be soon, it still seems to make sense to work around the system for now.
BTW, MBlume, nice bit of mind reading, I was impressed by that!
Replies from: MBlume↑ comment by steven0461 · 2009-04-03T12:22:56.138Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I downvoted a few comments on the same principle yesterday, but I see those have been repaired. Hope people didn't take it as disapproval.
Replies from: Eliezer_Yudkowsky↑ comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer_Yudkowsky) · 2009-04-03T12:36:33.984Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Okay seriously, don't worry about this, it'll get fixed eventually and then we don't want to have to run back and change everything back around. A few points of temporary karma are not important.
comment by robzahra · 2009-04-02T23:59:13.385Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
This post is a good idea, but wouldn't it be easier for everyone to join the less wrong facebook group? I'm not positive, but I think the geographical sorting can then be easily viewed automatically. You could then invite the subgroups to their group, and post meetings etc. that way. There may be better methods than this I don't know about.
comment by Vladimir_Nesov · 2009-04-02T22:44:27.107Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Anyone from Russia? I live in Moscow.
Replies from: Vladimir_Golovin, cousin_it, BT_Uytya, khafra↑ comment by Vladimir_Golovin · 2009-04-03T06:11:15.861Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Rostov-na-Donu here :)
I know a couple of guys here in Rostov (was quite surprised to discover them!) who are interested in That Which Cannot Be Named Yet. They could definitely learn a lot from reading LW and the OB corpus, but unfortunately their English isn't good enough.
(BTW, I didn't think you were from Moscow, thought you're an immigrant -- your English is way too good for a regular Russian.)
comment by Paul Crowley (ciphergoth) · 2009-04-02T21:53:09.676Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you live outside Europe, the US, or Canada.
Replies from: y0math, insaneabd, None, None, michaelkeenan, blogospheroid, Vladimir_Gritsenko, dyokomizo, AndrewH↑ comment by michaelkeenan · 2009-04-06T07:20:51.965Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Taipei, Taiwan.
↑ comment by blogospheroid · 2009-04-06T04:20:58.399Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Bangalore, India, honest confession, a lurker more than a commentor. I feel i don't know enough.
Replies from: thungas↑ comment by Vladimir_Gritsenko · 2009-04-04T10:09:30.257Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I can't be the only guy to generate the 410 hits from Israel... if I am, that is very sad.
Replies from: DanArmak↑ comment by AndrewH · 2009-07-18T00:18:10.830Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Auckland, New Zealand
Replies from: james_edwardscomment by flawed_skull · 2009-04-03T15:59:38.610Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
New Jersey! Arent there enough OB/LWers to make a greater new york area meetup once in 2 months possible?
Replies from: olimaycomment by Daniel_Burfoot · 2009-04-03T07:32:49.372Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Tokyo, Japan.
comment by haig · 2009-04-03T05:17:29.320Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Los Angeles, Ca
Replies from: MBlume↑ comment by MBlume · 2009-04-03T06:08:39.200Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
hey, just so you know, there's some other southern californians hanging out down-thread
comment by michaelhoney · 2009-04-03T03:26:39.966Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Canberra, Australia.
Replies from: JamesCole, ramana-kumar, Virge, MattFisher↑ comment by Ramana Kumar (ramana-kumar) · 2009-10-26T21:08:02.581Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Canberra, Australia, too.
↑ comment by Virge · 2009-04-04T13:38:54.050Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Melbourne, Australia
Replies from: TomM, Ppeach, matt, Patrick, luminosity, wedrifid↑ comment by luminosity · 2010-08-03T05:27:08.209Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Me too.
↑ comment by wedrifid · 2009-10-06T09:43:32.611Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Another.
Replies from: patrickmclaren↑ comment by patrickmclaren · 2010-03-30T13:05:39.706Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
One more!
↑ comment by MattFisher · 2009-04-03T03:54:35.846Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Sydney, Australia
But I could make it to Canberra ;)
Replies from: zemaj, janm, erratiocomment by [deleted] · 2009-04-03T03:01:09.531Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'd love to meet any of you near Atlanta, GA!
Replies from: chronophasiac↑ comment by chronophasiac · 2009-04-03T11:26:35.128Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Yup, me too.
comment by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2009-04-04T01:46:47.915Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Post in this thread if you're female. (I'm not; just wondering.)
Replies from: Alicorn↑ comment by Alicorn · 2009-04-04T02:30:25.007Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm female. Why is this a matter of interest?
Replies from: John_Maxwell_IV↑ comment by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2009-04-04T02:41:17.280Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm curious about who reads the site, I guess.
Replies from: byrnema↑ comment by byrnema · 2009-04-07T03:42:45.474Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
It would be neat to know the distribution. (I'm F.)
Replies from: free_rip↑ comment by free_rip · 2010-09-22T10:15:59.382Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I doubt we'll get an idea of distribution from this thread, but I'm female.
Replies from: byrnema↑ comment by byrnema · 2010-09-22T12:20:38.949Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Thanks, I'm glad to know that. Since I made that comment, there's been a survey and they found that about 3% of us are female. Maybe it's as high as 10% or 20% with error and lurkers, but we're still a minority.
Have you been following Less Wrong for a while, or have you recently come across it?
Replies from: free_rip↑ comment by free_rip · 2011-01-25T10:57:50.859Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm new, as evidenced by the fact that until now I did not realize I had a handy inbox that told me about replies. (Yes, that was an apology for taking so long to respond. cough Sorry.) Haven't been on much since I joined (few months past) what with exams, but hoping to become a little less of a lurker now that they're finished and I've read through a fair bit of the sequences and whatnot.
I kind of wish there were sequences on math and science and other such things on this site - I can get most of the concepts, but I'm still in high school and the maths goes over my head sometimes.
Replies from: shokwave↑ comment by shokwave · 2011-01-25T11:16:51.247Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
People have recommended betterexplained and khan academy for math mostly and some science.
Replies from: free_rip↑ comment by free_rip · 2011-01-26T00:29:25.610Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Thank you! Betterexplained is alright, but Khan Academy is amazing - easy, simple, great layout, progress tracking, instructional videos, challenges. I'm working my way through the logarithms track at the moment. (Yes, I am that far behind all of you.)