Come to Manifest 2024 (June 7-9 in Berkeley)

post by Saul Munn (saul-munn) · 2024-03-27T21:30:17.306Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

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comment by RedMan · 2024-05-05T17:59:50.949Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

What are the norms on drug/alcohol use at these events?

On a scale from 'absent from the campus and if found with legal substances you will be expelled from the event and possibly the community' to 'use of pharma or illegal drugs is likely to be common and potentially encouraged by mild peer pressure'?

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↑ comment by Saul Munn (saul-munn) · 2024-05-07T07:00:56.372Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

i'll give two answers, the Official Event Guidelines and the practical social environment.[1] i will say that i have have a bit of a COI in that i'm an event organizer; it'd be good if someone who isn't organizing the event, but e.g. attended the event last year, to either second my thoughts or give their own.

  1. Official Event Guidelines
    1. Unsafe drug use of any kind is disallowed and strongly discouraged, both by the venue and by us.
    2. Illegal drug use is disallowed and strongly discouraged, both by the venue and by us.
    3. Alcohol use during the event is discouraged, but you can bring & drink your own if you drink responsibly. However, at the official afterparty (and possibly at some points during Summer Camp), we may serve drinks. Broadly, our rules with regard to alcohol are "drink responsibly; please don't drink during the day; definitely don't drink if you're going to drink irresponsibly, because that will be no fun for us and definitely no fun for you." The social environment will not be conducive to alcohol during the day, and probably not super conducive at night.
  2. practical social environment
    1. during the main event, drugs & alcohol are pretty strongly discouraged. it makes the event lower quality for everyone.
    2. during the official afterparty, we'll probably serve alcohol in moderate, safe amounts. we will not be serving drugs, and the social environment will probably not be very conducive to drugs.
    3. i could imagine that external, unofficial parties/meetups/etc have a different vibe. for these, my guess is that if you can imagine something between a regular conference meetup at a bar and a college party, you're probably somewhere on the right track. note that you are on your own if you attend external, unnofficial parties.
  1. ^

    for future reference, i do not necessarily endorse the practical social environment. more formally, the stance i take was written in the first bullet point (the Official Event Guidelines), regardless of anything written in the second bullet point.