Meetup News

YES

London

Berlin

Singapore

Paris

San Juan, Puerto Rico

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

I don't get nearly enough sleep that weekend

Not enough rationality actually gets taught

Other

no vegan food (issue with main plan for vegan food, as is tradition)

Not enough new friends are made

Meetup hits the venue capacity

There's no food for a large chunk of the attendees (e.g. no vegetarian option even though there's supposed to be)

The megameetup goes way over budget

Someone gets extremely intoxicated on a legal substance

Major newspaper insinuates mean things about us

Lots of people get lost

Emergency services is incorrectly called

Emergency Services is correctly called

Venue kicks us out midway for terrible behavior

Other

At an EA (Effective Altruism) conference

LessWrong (LW) Meetup

Bay Area Taco Tuesday

Manifold Markets Manifest

NO

200-249

150-199

250-299

100-149

300-349

400+

<100

YES

YES

I get less than 6 hours of sleep on any day between 10-15 Dec

Everything is fine, nothing is ruined

The event goes way over budget

The air purifiers don't arrive in time

Speaker or meetup organiser no-shows

Technical issues with Swapcard

Less than 250 of the 300 registered attendees show up

The hoodies don't arrive in time

Food is incorrectly labelled (allergens/not vegan)

YES

YES