WELCOME TO THE BAY AREA RATIONALIST COMMUNITY

Better today than we were yesterday, better tomorrow than we are today.

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  • Welcome!

    This is a portal into the Bay Area rationalist community

    We value truth over comfort, and results over effort, but effort over apathy.
     
    You're invited to join us at events described below.
  • Community Events

    Here is a list of the reoccurring community events that currently or will soon exist:


    There are three LessWrong meetup groups in the Bay Area: 

    Berkeley: Fridays at 7PM
    San Francisco: Mondays at 6PM
    South Bay: Tuesdays at 8PM

    Drop by to discuss rationality, play board games or just socialize.


    Work, chat and hang out with other community members in an informal setting

    at Cafe La Renaissance on Saturday afternoons. There will be coffee, conversations about various philosophical topics and interesting people. Everybody is welcome, and it is explicitly encouraged to come if you don't identify as a rationalist, or bring friends with you who have no idea what this is all about.


    The Schelling Point starts at 3PM every Saturday and continues until people leave.


    The Bayesian Choir welcomes any new members who have experience in singing and want to sing cool songs with cool people. They meet once every two weeks in the East Bay. Join the google group if you want to know the details.


    There are many opportunities for alumni of the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) in the Berkeley area.

    Alumni Dojo: Weekly in the CFAR office 
    Alumni Meetups: Info coming soon!
     
    Attending a CFAR workshop is a great way to get to know local community members, while learning more about applied rationality.


    Join us in organizing a more active community. The community core consists of community members who organize events, manage directories (such as this one), and provide many of the community services that you see here.
     
    The community core is also learning how to build tight-knit groups of motivated people. Please reach out to Oliver Habryka for more details.
     
  • Our Community Helpers

    We all have something to offer. Here are a few people who want to help you: 

    Oliver Habryka
    Contact me if you need help organizing any community events!
    Other interests include:
    • Running a student organization at UC-Berkeley
    • Building websites like this one
    • Cultivating community and putting people into contact
    • Giving strategic advice and helping people
    Alex Altair
    Contact me if you want to organize a hackathon! Other interests include: 
    • Organizing rituals and creating traditions
    • Advice on becoming a software engineer
    • Discussion of AGI and existential risk
    • Writing valuable posts for the community
    Alicorn
    Contact me for a slot in my legendary dinner parties!
    Other interests include: 
      • rationalist fiction
      • self-knowledge
      • Bayesian Choir
    Malcolm Ocean
    Contact me for coaching and problem solving sessions!
    Other interests include: 
    • Communication, trust, and community-building
    • Blogging about metacognition and culture-change
    • Productivity systems (I built this one: complice.co)
    William Eden
    Contact me if you're interested in world domination. Divia and I blog at Becoming Eden. Other interests include:
    • Engaging intellectual discussions
    • Productivity hacking
    • Nutrition and fitness
    • Social and emotional awareness
    • Starting a family and raising children
    • Community living
    • Entrepreneurship and venture capital
    • Biotechnology
    Matt Elder
    Contact me if you're interested in making music together, or want help organizing community events. Other interests include:
    • Designing games, lessons, community events, and other experiential contexts
    • Amateur, peer psychotherapy
    • Turning explicit knowledge into implicit practice
    • Programming, Mathematics and other games of grand abstraction
    • Making everybody more powerful and awesome
    Brayden McLean
    Contact me if you are interested in relocating to the Bay Area from abroad. Other interests include:
    • Cultivating intentional living communities
    • Pursuing a career of Earning to Give through entrepreneurship
    • Networking and community building
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    Contact me for emotional processing and relationship coaching. Other interests include:
    • Nonviolent Communication
    • Gender and sexuality geekery
    • Arranging music
    • Working towards social equality
  • A calendar of our events:

    We have a lot of things happening here in the Bay Area. Please join us: 
  • Interested? 

    Then just click below to be put into contact with your own community greeter, who will answer any questions you have!
    Get introduced!
  • Frequently Asked Questions

    I want to find housing/I am offering housing for rationalists in the Bay Area. Where do I go?

    Right now there are two spreadsheets with forms summarizing the current rationalist housing offerings in the Bay Area. You can find them here: 
     
    Long-Term Housing [More than a a week]: Form and Responses
    Short-Term Housing [For less than a week]: Form and Responses
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      If you want to suggest any changes, want to get your own grey rectangle on the page as a community helper, or want to become one of the community greeters, please send a message to habryka@berkeley.edu
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