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‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
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As an experiment, would it be worth sharing this in Meetup?
FYI, this meetup will be announced at ACX, so we can expect more people than usual.
Regarding sharing the event in more public platforms.
My (never explicit) goal with the Lisbon group has been to connect people who are into EA/Rationality. This doesn't require too much time/energy from me, and I'm ok with doing it, even if not perfectly.
Sharing the events in Meetup/Facebook would bring in people who don't know anything about EA/Rationality (and, from I heard from other people, that are not even interested in knowing about it), and so it would make more sense if the goal was to increase the Lisbon community and letting more people know about it. The above would require more time/energy than I'm willing to spend.
TBH, I'm only filling the group organizer role because no one else was doing it. :) Happy to pass the torch to someone more component and with more ambitious goals!
I think this depends on how many people who are not into EA/Rationality would come. If lots of people came, then it would probably be wise to organise specific activities. However, I do not think this will be the case, so I guess it is fine to introduce EA informally in the meetup.
I would be happy to post something on Meetup/Eventbrite.
Agree with Luis's sentiment. Unless we put in more thought about how to indoctrinate the uninitiated, posting it on meetup/eventbrite presents the risk of devolving this into just another social gathering. However, maybe it's worth it to run the risk and potentially evangelize at least one person 😁
So, I think we should post it up there, but make it explicit that if you join, it's because you're curious about this. We can just post some links to intros and explanations about EA/ACX.
I agree with this approach. If we expect more people who are into ACX for the next meetup, there is also less risk of the meetup going badly, because the fraction of people not interested in EA/Rationality will tend to be lower.