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LessWrong Community Weekend 2025

One and a half weeks ago, I attended the LessWrong community weekend 2025 and had an amazing time there.

Something happens when you put a bunch of people whose only shared characteristic is working hard to be less wrong about things.

Draft in Progress

Writing in here is haphazardous, disjointed and sketchy.

It's probably a good idea to come back later.

§ What

  • I learned how to play Penultimate Chess
  • Someone hit me up to talk about something in Decision Theory they’d been thinking about.
  • I ate the most amazing snacks I’ve encountered at an event, ever. I normally bring loads of my own snacks (mostly nuts) to events I attend (cause their ones aren’t that good)—this time I didn’t even open them.
  • I attended a session on Community Building, one

§ Ground Rules

It had really good Ground Rules:

  1. Pacman Rule
  2. Discuss to learn, not to convince
  3. 1-on-1
  4. Rest
  5. Make it happen
  6. Allow be weird