Hey Lucie, thanks for letting us know! I know it's not ideal to move the event on such short notice. However, sometimes it can happen that something comes up so that both of the organisers can't make it, in that case we need to cancel/move the event. Luckily that does not happen too often.

I've changed the date here, on Meet-up and in the EA Google calendar. Is there any other place where you'd recommend posting a cancellation next time to reach more people (i.e. in the EA Telegram channel)?

Sorry for the short notice, but we have to skip the August date. That's why I've changed it to September 24th. Hope to see you there!

(We might need to move it indoors—but let's see, sometimes it can still be quite warm in September.)

For obvious reasons we have to move the event indoors.

We will meet at Atopia - as we do during winter time. Sorry for the short notice but we were hoping for some miracle ;)

Atopia is easy to reach via S-Bahn or Tram.

Please note: it is not allowed to consume food in atopia.

See you tonight, we look forward to the discussion!

If you join for the first time, this is where you can find Atopia:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6i4hBRu3UcnDqBUP6

Hi all, due to the low signups this time, we decided to cancel the event this time. We'll take a break in May and we'll be back in June with a regular schedule.

If you have any suggestions for topics, for future meetups, please let us know!

Hi Niklas, sorry for not responding! I somehow did not get any notification about this. Glad you found as anyway :)

Thank you all for joining, I hope you enjoyed it as well! My delay getting home was less severe than on the way to Atopia but still a lot more than 1 minute and today there were white patches on the grass close to the S-Bahn ^^

A couple of random points connected to yesterday's discussion. I would be glad to hear your thoughts:

• For me the best thing I learned yesterday was how beneficial it can actually be to discuss a question, based on the probability different people assign to a certain outcome. I hadn't realised this before.

• Here is an article about probabilistic reasoning that Isa and I discussed during preparation as well, maybe you'll find it as interesting as we did: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BWLAzZEA5K7HPr2CL/probabilities-prioritization-and-bayesian-mindset

• And, last point: I have a question. Is anyone aware of any good research on the topic of how well humans perform when making decisions on guessed probabilities in complex cenarios where the whole state space is (other than in a game scenario) not known to anyone.

This happened ages ago, but I finally had the time to finish a post I started after discussing possible income distributions at this event. Maybe some of you remember this discussion and find this text  interesting.

Good point, thanks! I removed it - maybe a bit late...

Thanks for joining and for the good discussion! I hope everyone who did not join for the restaurant got home safely without getting soaked! The next Food for Thought will be at the 18. July (topic TBD) https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/events/Wcjs2D9PGAMEC3ybF/food-for-thought-14-tbd