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This is a meetup group dedicated to exploring the ideas discussed on Less Wrong. You don't have to have read the blog before joining the group. You just have to be interested in trying to upgrade your rationality. Thinking and deciding are central to our daily lives. The Less Wrong community aims to gain expertise in how human brains think and decide, so that we can do so more successfully. We use the latest insights from cognitive science, social psychology, probability theory, and decision the …
This is the Meetup group for the Skeptical Society of St. Louis and is open to anyone who would like to meet others interested in examining and challenging the extraordinary claims of religion, the paranormal, alternative medicine, cryptozoology, creationism, UFOs and all other areas of fringe and pseudo-science. We promote critical thinking, education, and the rigorous application of the tools of science for the critical examination of these areas. We are not debunkers but just people who think …
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Here is your chance to move the water cooler at work out amongst the rest of the world. This multi-partisan group will talk about everything from politics to religion to race; the things that you aren't supposed to talk about. We are about the sharing of ideas and points of view which will likely be different from views you currently hold. The goal is not to solve anything, but to leave the Meetup with a better understanding of how someone who hold beliefs completely opposite from you can com …
My name is Bill Zimmerly and I am a retired computer programmer and published author. Ever since I was a child, Mathematics and the machines that we use to explore Mathematics (calculators, computers, slide-rules, etc.) have fascinated me. After retirement, I moved to a small town that has a great "feel" to it, Hillsboro, Missouri, USA. My love of Mathematics has inspired me to create a new Meetup Group for my adopted town so that fellow Mathophiles ("Lovers of Mathematics") can get together, sh …
… We have a topic for each event, along with a reading (usually in the form of a convenient link to an essay or an article online) which provides for a summary of the relevant concepts and a starting point for the discussion. Topics are wide-ranging, including the qualities of consciousness, informal logic, the philosophy of religion, the is/ought dichotomy, metaphysics, the different assumptions about moral values, 'true' and 'false' as meaningful categories, the belief-desire theory of action, b …
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