What we’re about
Oxford Rationalish is a community that has fun caring about nuance, and engaging in good-faith debate with open and kind skepticism.
This is a place to dive into weeds, to be curious about other people's perspectives, and to love finding out that you were wrong!
Some of the things we're into include:
- making predictions, seeing how well we did, and working out how to get better
- discussing how to align Artificial Intelligence to our values (technically and philosophically)
- exploring systems and games which encourage mutual understanding, trust and connection.
It's associated with sites like Less Wrong and blogs like Astral Codex Ten, SlateStarCodex, and Overcoming Bias. It's also friendly with the Effective Altruism movement.
Socials every month, and Applied Rationality workshops from time to time!
Upcoming events
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Oxford ACX Anywhere Fall 2025
The Star, 21 Rectory Road, Oxford, GB6 - monthly ACX Anywhere - our OxRat edition in Autumn 2025 is Wed 15th October, 6:30pm, at The Star
ACX is a blog - see more here https://substack.com/@astralcodexten
Come by! Meet interesting people, chat interesting chat
Normally we just chat about whatever comes up. Past topics of conversation have included AI alignment, collaborative disagreement, calibrating personal predictions (how to measure and improve your own predictions), decision theory (Newcomb's paradox, Parfit's hitchhiker, etc), miscellaneous tech stuff (web3, GPT5, etc), animal husbandry (how to flip a goat, and why), and much much more.
We'll be in the beer garden round the back, with a sign
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Past events
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