Bay Area Bayesians Unite!
post by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer_Yudkowsky) · 2007-10-28T00:07:42.000Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 15 commentsRobin Hanson has his fellow GMU economists to talk to, but I'm not associated with a university and I live way out in the boondocks: the echoing emptiness of, er, Silicon Valley.
Overcoming Bias gets over 2000 visitors per day. Surely some of you are from the Bay Area. Would you be interested in a Bay Area meetup of Overcoming Bias readers?
Polls after the jump.
If you're interested at all, please vote in at least the closest-city poll.
Polls will be processed for a best-compromise value, not a binding
modal result.
If I get at least 30 responses, I'll start looking into
meetup locations.
15 comments
Comments sorted by oldest first, as this post is from before comment nesting was available (around 2009-02-27).
comment by Brandon_Reinhart · 2007-10-28T02:25:06.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
As Alex says, just add an option for "lol, wut?" to every poll to weed out people who might otherwise vote randomly for the hell of it. :P
Should be an Austin, TX meet up. It's like the Bay Area, but a hell of a lot more affordable :)
comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Eliezer_Yudkowsky) · 2007-10-28T04:13:47.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I was only proposing an informal meetup, not an international conference.
comment by Robin_Hanson2 · 2007-10-28T13:20:37.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I do as Eliezer says have my GMU colleagues to talk to, but even so we might consider having a DC area meetup sometime. Maybe we should see how the Bay Area version turns out first.
comment by Nick_Tarleton · 2007-10-28T17:56:56.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
While we're at it... central North Carolina?
comment by Michael_M._Butler · 2007-10-29T02:51:49.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I'm up in Sonoma County -- how about something teleconferenced via Skype, or something multipoint?
comment by Richard_Hollerith2 · 2007-10-29T04:18:52.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Butler, I'm near Sonoma Cy. Send me an email sometime.
comment by Pete_Carlton · 2007-10-29T04:38:28.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Looks like there had been 52 responses before me.. I hope I am free to attend (I'm in Berkeley..)
comment by Recovering_irrationalist · 2007-10-29T14:50:01.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
A long way off yet... but given the hopefully growing correlation, how about another one at the time and town of the next Singularity Summit?
comment by Gustavo_Lacerda · 2007-10-30T03:22:20.000Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Nick: Look at http://www.stat.duke.edu/ . To paraphrase two CMU statisticians at once: if Bayesianism is a cult, Duke is its Sodom & Gomorrah.
Coincidentally or not: my blog and this blog are the first two Google hits to bayesian+sodom+and+gomorrah