The Bay Area rationalist community has an entry problem! Lots of listed groups are dead, the last centralized index disappeared, communication moved to private discord and slacks. This is bad, so we're making a new index, hopefully up to date and as complete as we can!

Communication

Discord: Bay Area Rationalists: https://discord.gg/EpG4xUVKtf

Email Group: BayAreaLessWrong: https://groups.google.com/g/bayarealesswrong

Local Meetup Groups

Taco Tuesday: by Austin Chen, founder emeritus of Manifold. Check his Manifold questions page for the next date!

North Oakland LessWrong Meetup: every Wednesday, hosted by @Czynski.

Thursday Dinners in Berkeley: Advertised on the Discord server and Google group, alternating between a few restaurants on the northwest side of UC campus.

Bay Area ACX Meetups: For the ACX everywhere meetups twice per year, and some other sporadic events.

Housing

To find spots in group houses, temporary or long term, you can use the Bay Area EA/Rationality Housing Board. The [...]

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First published:
July 26th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hDefuqC2Rbnr8THYW/index-of-rationalist-groups-in-the-bay-july-2024

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“Index of rationalist groups in the Bay July 2024” by Lucie Philippon, Czynski

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