Scott is asking anyone who is interested in his blog to come out and meet in person!
We have rented out a large event space and will be providing food. This will be a completely open ended meet-up with board games, music, drinks, maybe even a super smash or mario cart tournament, and cool people. The "PEAR" sign will be outside of the building, but please call me at 513-432-3310 if you can't find it.
Please feel free to come, even if, like many of us, you feel awkward about it, feel that you're not the typical rationalist or effective altruist, are completely new to either community, or worry that people won't like you, etc.
Hope to see you there!
Can I have access to modifying these events? I'm an organizer for PEAR. I'm glad that EA Forum can pull things from the meet-up website but most of our meet-up events are placeholders until further updates can be made.
Case in point: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Effective-Altruists-and-Rationalists/events/sbndssydcgbgc/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link
Sure thing - I just assigned you as an organizer to the group. You should have access to edit the group's info and events.
We have a contractor who cross-posts EA events from Facebook and Meetup. If you'd prefer to manage your group's events yourself, we can ask the contractor to skip your group.
I would like them to continue because it saves me a lot of time. Does LessWrong have a similar function?
LessWrong doesn't have this event cross-posting. Possibly it's less relevant for their site than the EA Forum.