Meetup : Fort Collins, Colorado Meetup Wednesday August 31 7pm

post by EvelynM · 2011-08-25T19:16:08.631Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 6 comments

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  Discussion article for the meetup : Fort Collins, Colorado Meetup Wednesday August 31 7pm
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Discussion article for the meetup : Fort Collins, Colorado Meetup Wednesday August 31 7pm

WHEN: 31 August 2011 07:00:00PM (-0600)

WHERE: 144 North College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80524

Coffee shop chat format, to get to know other rationalists. Look for the LessWrong sign. I'll be there till at least 8pm.

Discussion article for the meetup : Fort Collins, Colorado Meetup Wednesday August 31 7pm

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comment by EvelynM · 2011-09-01T04:21:07.209Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The meetup was a success, with a total of 4 people attending.

There's a quality of conversation among people who aspire to be less wrong, that is refreshing and energizing. To give you an idea of the range:

thinkthatthrough.wordpress.com - You are an atheist

3quartsdaily

Shor's Algorithm for factoring primes is squarely in P.

Lattice based crypto

It's totally ok to say I don't know.

Lob's Paradox

Sam Harris's Moral Landscape - and how he didn't clarify his premises enough.

Mathematics jokes ∞! = √2Ⲡ

Rationally Speaking

HPMoR

lesswrong on freenode

Selenium SST

Zero 7's Somersault

The Quantum Machine experiment by O'Donnell

just to name a few topics.

An excellent time was had by everyone.

Replies from: TheStevenator, ToyKeeper, TheStevenator
comment by TheStevenator · 2011-09-01T06:38:36.705Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Just to clarify: the website is 3quarksdaily.com. :)

comment by ToyKeeper · 2011-09-07T23:43:12.091Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I enjoyed it. I hope to attend next time too.

comment by TheStevenator · 2011-09-01T23:53:06.420Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

And here is the response to that Sam Harris wrote to some critiques of his postion on how science can answer moral questions: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/a/

comment by TheStevenator · 2011-08-30T06:49:18.496Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I just noticed this! I live in Fort Collins! See you there!

comment by EvelynM · 2011-09-01T14:05:40.020Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

3quarksdaily.com