I'd be happy to host one. But, I'm in central Florida. Between now and about mid-October, very few people would willingly attend anything outside other than walking from a parking spot to an air-conditioned building ( I may be the exception...but still...). Will there be another call for meetups in the autumn or winter?
We already have a meetup scheduled in Salt Lake City, UT, USA for this Saturday 8/14. It's at 996 South Donner Way at 3 pm. Contact me @ we are not saved (all one word) at gmail for additional details. Beyond that the SLC meetups are the second saturday of every _even_ month.
What if you live in a town that's reasonably close enough to a city that had a meetup? You'd like to organize a meetup in your town, but if it looks like it's going to flop is it acceptable to cancel and redirect everyone to the one in the nearby city? (e.g. in this case I'd redirect to Portland Oregon)
I'm trying to decide whether it's worthwhile for me to host one in Bryan/College Station, TX (home of Texas A&M University). I see that West Lafayette, IN (home of Purdue University) and Iowa City (home of University of Iowa) each had 2 attendees. But then I see that Houston only had 3, despite being a much larger city, so I worry that this region of Texas might just have fewer readers than midwestern university towns. Since I spent the last six months living temporarily in Austin and have plans to spend more time visiting there generally in the future, and the Austin one had 60 attendees, I might just drop the idea of trying to do one here and just go there instead.
Is there anyone who went to one of the two or three person meetups that had a good enough time to decide that it was worthwhile? Is there anyone who attended both a big one in a nearby city and a small one on a different date, who has opinions on whether merging or splitting is better in these cases?
If by some chance anyone who reads this comment would want to come to a Bryan/College Station meetup, I'll take that as sufficient reason to volunteer to host one, and make sure the time and location I list are good for both of us!
Previous organizers, do people typically let you know they are coming or do they just show up? I'd like to bring an appropriate amount of pastries if I end up being an organizer.
Do we have any way of figuring out ahead of time if people will come/is it acceptable to set a minimum number of RSVPs? I live in Athens Georgia, and I just can’t imagine there are enough (if any) ACX readers nearby to justify a meetup, but I’d be happy to organize one just to see what it’s like if people were interested
The DC group is holding our monthly meetup this Saturday at 1002 N street NW at 7pm. Come one, come all, the bourbon is free! You can join the private mailing lists at either of these groups:
We expect to be doing another South Bay meetup at some point, but at the moment infection rates are still going up so we are putting it off for a while. Anyone who wants to be on the mailing list and isn't can email me at ddfr@daviddfriedman.com.
Ngl, I’m submitting a meet up in south Los Angeles solely because within a set of ACX readers there’s gotta be a least a few chess players. I’ll bring my board and hope.
For reasons that are definitely 100% related to covid safety, Hong Kong allows indoor gatherings but not outdoor gatherings. Hong Kong also has not had an instance of local transmission of covid in several weeks. Would you tolerate an exception for Hong Kong for an indoor meetup as long as it obeys the local laws?
I'm the organizer for the Los Angeles LW/ACX meetup (and have already filled out the form), but for more context: we're currently having our meetups on Discord (https://discord.gg/TaYjsvN) every Wednesday at 7 pm, and will resume in-person meetups when the covid situation permits. It's possible that I'll figure out a good outdoor venue before then, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to commit to a date and location when the situation is changing so rapidly. I'll keep whatever resource (i.e. spreadsheet) is provided up-to-date but the Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/LW-SoCal-Announce) and Lesswrong Community page (https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/GSN7BypgiJcjEiRRS) are also reliable ways to keep track of when we resume in-person meetups if you can't join us online.
I've attended meetups in Columbus and St. Louis in the past, but I'm currently located in Cleveland for the next several months. I see on the form that Cleveland meetups have taken place in the past. Is there a preexisting community here?
I can think of an open field to host the meetup in but I don't want to intrude on anyone else's turf.
In case anyone from Oxford, UK is free tonight (Wed 11th Aug), a few of us are meeting at the Isis Farmhouse at 7pm, there'll be a copy of Sidgwick on the table.
We'll probably run another in October, stay tuned.
Oh fun! I'd love to host a meetup near Buffalo NY. (Java Center, about 45 min drive SE of Buf.) I would also love to go to some other meetup in the area... Buffalo or Rochester. I'm flexible on the date (if there is any interest) but will pick Sun. Sept. 5th for the form. I live in a little piece of paradise with woods, fields, a stream and waterfalls so hiking boots and or creek shoes would be encouraged. I also have two (or three) friendly dogs, which might be a problem for some people.
> According to the recent surveys, 97% of ACX readers in the US are vaccinated.
Note that this means 97% of ACX readers in the US *who chose to take the survey* are vaccinated, and there is reason to think those would be correlated.
I am posting in the comments (rather than responding to the form) to say:
I really do not want to organize another meet-up but in the event there is nobody who volunteers in Toronto, I will try and personally find someone to volunteer.
Am I the only ACX reader who thinks this post is an example of cult-like behavior?
Scott, you're trying to dictate the circumstances under which your readers can gather and interact in the real world. Try to see this from an outsider's perspective. Imagine if Curtis Yarvin posted something like this, with the attendant bizarro-world alterations.
I really enjoy your writing, and I think a lot of it is brilliant and insightful, but this kind of thing really makes me wonder if you've been compromised by your self reliant situation.
For Boston / Cambridge, MA folks: we are doing a meetup on Sunday Aug 22 at 1pm at John F Kennedy Park ahead of the "Meetups Everywhere" event in September: https://www.facebook.com/events/1268190630262997
We have an email too now - bostonacx @ gmail.com - shoot a message to be put on our email list.
"I will request that only vaccinated people attend these meetups - but knowing that I can’t enforce this, it makes me reassured to learn that almost everyone is vaccinated anyway."
In Germany there's a standard for events to receive people to be either be vaccinated (sometimes 'fully' vaccinated, sometimes requiring at least two doses), be tested at the same day or have had COVID-19 in the last 6 months.
Are you articulating a preference for excluding nonvaccinated but tested people?
(In Germany people can show their status with a mobile phone, so it's relatively easy to enforce this for meetup organizers if it's desired)
I'd be happy to host one. But, I'm in central Florida. Between now and about mid-October, very few people would willingly attend anything outside other than walking from a parking spot to an air-conditioned building ( I may be the exception...but still...). Will there be another call for meetups in the autumn or winter?
We already have a meetup scheduled in Salt Lake City, UT, USA for this Saturday 8/14. It's at 996 South Donner Way at 3 pm. Contact me @ we are not saved (all one word) at gmail for additional details. Beyond that the SLC meetups are the second saturday of every _even_ month.
What if you live in a town that's reasonably close enough to a city that had a meetup? You'd like to organize a meetup in your town, but if it looks like it's going to flop is it acceptable to cancel and redirect everyone to the one in the nearby city? (e.g. in this case I'd redirect to Portland Oregon)
Very cool, we just decided at our last online meetup (for Zürich) that we were having the next one in person if at all possible.
I'm trying to decide whether it's worthwhile for me to host one in Bryan/College Station, TX (home of Texas A&M University). I see that West Lafayette, IN (home of Purdue University) and Iowa City (home of University of Iowa) each had 2 attendees. But then I see that Houston only had 3, despite being a much larger city, so I worry that this region of Texas might just have fewer readers than midwestern university towns. Since I spent the last six months living temporarily in Austin and have plans to spend more time visiting there generally in the future, and the Austin one had 60 attendees, I might just drop the idea of trying to do one here and just go there instead.
Is there anyone who went to one of the two or three person meetups that had a good enough time to decide that it was worthwhile? Is there anyone who attended both a big one in a nearby city and a small one on a different date, who has opinions on whether merging or splitting is better in these cases?
If by some chance anyone who reads this comment would want to come to a Bryan/College Station meetup, I'll take that as sufficient reason to volunteer to host one, and make sure the time and location I list are good for both of us!
Previous organizers, do people typically let you know they are coming or do they just show up? I'd like to bring an appropriate amount of pastries if I end up being an organizer.
Do we have any way of figuring out ahead of time if people will come/is it acceptable to set a minimum number of RSVPs? I live in Athens Georgia, and I just can’t imagine there are enough (if any) ACX readers nearby to justify a meetup, but I’d be happy to organize one just to see what it’s like if people were interested
The DC group is holding our monthly meetup this Saturday at 1002 N street NW at 7pm. Come one, come all, the bourbon is free! You can join the private mailing lists at either of these groups:
https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/dc-slatestarcodex
https://www.facebook.com/groups/433668130485595/
I've signed up for 23 of October, which is when the DSL community is going to be doing our first meetup.
We expect to be doing another South Bay meetup at some point, but at the moment infection rates are still going up so we are putting it off for a while. Anyone who wants to be on the mailing list and isn't can email me at ddfr@daviddfriedman.com.
Ngl, I’m submitting a meet up in south Los Angeles solely because within a set of ACX readers there’s gotta be a least a few chess players. I’ll bring my board and hope.
Are there any other readers from Argentina who may like to do a meetup?
For reasons that are definitely 100% related to covid safety, Hong Kong allows indoor gatherings but not outdoor gatherings. Hong Kong also has not had an instance of local transmission of covid in several weeks. Would you tolerate an exception for Hong Kong for an indoor meetup as long as it obeys the local laws?
I'm the organizer for the Los Angeles LW/ACX meetup (and have already filled out the form), but for more context: we're currently having our meetups on Discord (https://discord.gg/TaYjsvN) every Wednesday at 7 pm, and will resume in-person meetups when the covid situation permits. It's possible that I'll figure out a good outdoor venue before then, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to commit to a date and location when the situation is changing so rapidly. I'll keep whatever resource (i.e. spreadsheet) is provided up-to-date but the Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/LW-SoCal-Announce) and Lesswrong Community page (https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/GSN7BypgiJcjEiRRS) are also reliable ways to keep track of when we resume in-person meetups if you can't join us online.
Looking at Scott's link to old meetup data (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MmRNJVvnRNJ-jDVGQj1fI-eCuibn1PdipMxqC3nK-KQ/edit#gid=0), it looks like there's absolutely bupkiss in the Denver area --- or really, all of colorado. Is that still the case, or is it worth trying to organize one here?
Not a chance there's anyone else here from Kiryat Gat is there?
I've attended meetups in Columbus and St. Louis in the past, but I'm currently located in Cleveland for the next several months. I see on the form that Cleveland meetups have taken place in the past. Is there a preexisting community here?
I can think of an open field to host the meetup in but I don't want to intrude on anyone else's turf.
Anyone interested in a meetup in Karlsruhe or Freiburg, Germany?
In case anyone from Oxford, UK is free tonight (Wed 11th Aug), a few of us are meeting at the Isis Farmhouse at 7pm, there'll be a copy of Sidgwick on the table.
We'll probably run another in October, stay tuned.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1221768638031684
any other Phnom Penh ACXers?
What is an ACX meetup?
Oh fun! I'd love to host a meetup near Buffalo NY. (Java Center, about 45 min drive SE of Buf.) I would also love to go to some other meetup in the area... Buffalo or Rochester. I'm flexible on the date (if there is any interest) but will pick Sun. Sept. 5th for the form. I live in a little piece of paradise with woods, fields, a stream and waterfalls so hiking boots and or creek shoes would be encouraged. I also have two (or three) friendly dogs, which might be a problem for some people.
> According to the recent surveys, 97% of ACX readers in the US are vaccinated.
Note that this means 97% of ACX readers in the US *who chose to take the survey* are vaccinated, and there is reason to think those would be correlated.
I am posting in the comments (rather than responding to the form) to say:
I really do not want to organize another meet-up but in the event there is nobody who volunteers in Toronto, I will try and personally find someone to volunteer.
Am I the only ACX reader who thinks this post is an example of cult-like behavior?
Scott, you're trying to dictate the circumstances under which your readers can gather and interact in the real world. Try to see this from an outsider's perspective. Imagine if Curtis Yarvin posted something like this, with the attendant bizarro-world alterations.
I really enjoy your writing, and I think a lot of it is brilliant and insightful, but this kind of thing really makes me wonder if you've been compromised by your self reliant situation.
do we need to know /anything/ to host a meetup? what would they be about anyway?
also, is it ok to host one in [ok outside of] a quite small out of the way town? in the uk?
For Boston / Cambridge, MA folks: we are doing a meetup on Sunday Aug 22 at 1pm at John F Kennedy Park ahead of the "Meetups Everywhere" event in September: https://www.facebook.com/events/1268190630262997
We have an email too now - bostonacx @ gmail.com - shoot a message to be put on our email list.
Is there a current list for meetups?
"I will request that only vaccinated people attend these meetups - but knowing that I can’t enforce this, it makes me reassured to learn that almost everyone is vaccinated anyway."
In Germany there's a standard for events to receive people to be either be vaccinated (sometimes 'fully' vaccinated, sometimes requiring at least two doses), be tested at the same day or have had COVID-19 in the last 6 months.
Are you articulating a preference for excluding nonvaccinated but tested people?
(In Germany people can show their status with a mobile phone, so it's relatively easy to enforce this for meetup organizers if it's desired)