Cambridge Less Wrong Meetup

What: Practice having better discourse norms
Where: 70 5th St, Apt 2,
When: Saturday March 14th, 2pm
Style: Dojo
Run by: Skyler and Evan
The Basics of Rationalist Discourse is a post on LessWrong that attempts to outline ten things that exemplify good discussion norms among rationalists. Today we're going to do three things: First, read the list together. Second, look at a few selected online argument threads, to see if we can exemplify what guideline the thread is notably lacking in. Third, to have some debates ourselves in small groups where two people try and argue some point, and a spotter helps them keep to good norms.
The goal is to raise the discourse waterline, at least within our group.

What: Drill a few skills
Where: 70 5th St, Apt 2, Cambridge
When: Saturday, March 21st, 2pm
Style: Dojo
Run By: Skyler and Evan

Many of you may have heard Skyler's spiel on how it's not sufficient to read a blog post on how to make better decisions or observe more true things about the world, you should practice and drill as well. Today we're going to try this the way soccer practice or a karate dojo would do it; lots of repetition on several skills. If you were at the one last month, this will be familiar to you, ideally plus some refinement and quality of life improvements