The Workshop News

Directly help with LessOnline and/or Manifest

Help Ray with Feedbackloop Rationality

Directly help with the LessWrong Community Weekend

Actively talk to as many organizers as possible

Publish the rest of Running A Basic ____ sequence, going up to 1k+ events

Build a better Meetup Crossposter

Run a Meetup Exchange Program

Run an essayist writing group

Make the refined, digital version of Meetup In A Box

Run East Coast Rationalist Megameetup

Youtube Guide To ACX

Tiktok Guide To The Sequences

Run Vermont/Massachusetts Summer Solstice

Run LessWrong Community Census 2025

Get a Rationality Club going in a high school

Publish the rest of Conflict Resolution sequence

Run the ACX Meetup Reimbursement program

Run a paid workshop or dojo (Think CFAR workshop or Trading Bootcamp)

Fix and upgrade LessWrong's /Community page

Find a nice high paid normal job and fund someone else doing cool rationality meetup stuff

Put together an ACX equivalent to the EA Handbook

Create an ACX Jobs Board

Help get a Boston version of Fractal off the ground

Run Boston Solstice

Publish Anatomy of Community sequence

Set up a formal 501c3 (or something like that)

Handle incoming complaints about local meetups

Publish a guide to running a Sky-Style Summer Solstice

Backend ACX Everywhere (Fall and Spring)

Get Calibration Trivia to be run in multiple pubs, unaffiliated with the rationalist community

Publish some really good fanfic

Publish a beautiful, well edited Highlights From The Codex in physical form

HPMOR 10-year anniversary

5. An open source alternative to OpenAI o1 surpasses it across a range of reasoning benchmarks.

6. Challengers fail to make any meaningful dent in NVIDIA’s market position.

10. A video game based around interacting with GenAI-based elements will achieve break-out status.

2. An app or website created solely by someone with no coding ability will go viral (e.g. App Store Top-100).

9. A research paper generated by an AI Scientist is accepted at a major ML conference or workshop.

3. Frontier labs implement meaningful changes to data collection practices after cases begin reaching trial.

4. Early EU AI Act implementation ends up softer than anticipated after lawmakers worry they’ve overreached.

7. Levels of investment in humanoids will trail off, as companies struggle to achieve product-market fit.

8. Strong results from Apple’s on-device research accelerates momentum around personal on-device AI.

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Tortaria

Hunan Bistro

Joe's Pizza (14th + 3rd)

Mighty Quinn's BBQ (13th and 7th)

Hill Country

Carlotto

Dominic Ansel Workshop

BLT Prime (74th + Lexington)

Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee Company (25th + 8th)

Thai Villa

Bhatti Indian Grill

Brindle Room

Osteria Morini

Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria

Tao Downtown

Strip House (44th + 5th)

Keste Pizza

Magnolia Bakery (Bleecker Street)

Joe and Pat's NYC (10th + 1st)

Bourke Street Bakery (28th + Madison)

Prince Street Pizza

Dominic Ansel Kitchen

Au Za'atar

Rezdora

Da Umberto

Casa Mono

Xi'an's Famous Foods (15th and 8th)

The Donut Pub (both locations must close)

Dos Toros (two closest locations must close)

Scarpetta

Via Carota

Fogo De Chao (53rd Street)

The Halal Guys (14th + 2nd)

Japonica

Fiaschetteria "Pistoia" (both locations must close)

Eataly (23rd Street + 6th Avenue)

Naya (four closest locations must close)

Katz's Delicatessen

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