Lighthaven Sequences Reading Group #2 (Tuesday 09/17)

post by Ben Pace (Benito), Aella, Ronny Fernandez (ronny-fernandez) · 2024-09-08T21:23:27.490Z · ? · GW · 4 comments

Contents

  Some questions to ask yourself about the essays as you read them
  For the future
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Come get old-fashioned with us, and let's read the sequences at Lighthaven! We'll show up, mingle, do intros, and then split off into randomized groups for some sequences discussion. Please do the reading beforehand - it should be no more than 20 minutes of reading.

This group is aimed for people who are new to the sequences and would enjoy a group experience, but also for people who've been around LessWrong and LessWrong meetups for a while and would like a refresher.

This meetup will also have dinner provided! We'll post ahead of time with the food so you know if it works for you, but it will cover meat-eaters, veggies and vegans alike. Please RSVP to this event so we know how many people to have food for.

We're working through the sequences highlights [? · GW]. The mandatory readings this week are

1. The Meditation on Curiosity [? · GW]
2. The Importance of Saying "Oops" [? · GW]
3. Tsuyoku Naritai [LW · GW]
4. The Martial Art of Rationality [? · GW]
5. Optional: Humans are not automatically strategic [? · GW]

These are quite short and should take around 15-20 minutes to read all together.

The meetup starts at 6pm. We'll split into discussion groups around 6:30, and dinner will be served at about 7:30pm, after which point we'll hangout around the fireside as late as we feel like.

You can come without having read the essays from the sequences, we do want you to get to join, but then you will have to do a punishment. (And then you still have to catch up on reading the essays during the meetup.)

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

• What's the most important point in the essay?
• What's the weakest point in the essay? Or what is the essay wrong about?
• Can you think of a way to apply the ideas in this essay to your own life?

For the future

This is going to be a regular meetup! If you'd like to get notified of future events, you can subscribe to our meetup below to get an email whenever we add another one.

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