The next monthly discussion meetup is Saturday, December 3 @ 2 PM (see below for location details). For this meetup, we’ll be discussing the current state and possible futures of K-12 education. Roughly 50 million children attend school in the United States every day, and each can expect to spend

For this month’s social meetup/get-together, we’re going to meet at Half Sour, a bar and restaurant in the South Loop. We’ll meet next Friday, November 18 starting at 7 PM. All are welcome, whether you’ve come to a meetup before or not. I’ll be there starting at 7, but feel

The next monthly discussion meetup is Saturday, November 5 @ 2 PM (see below for location details). For this meetup, we going to discuss predictions and betting with an eye toward how concretizing your beliefs with probabilities can be valuable at the individual and group levels. For example, at the

The next monthly discussion meetup is Saturday, October 1 @ 2 PM. For this meetup, we going to discuss alternative ideas for one particular market, land, with a focus on land value tax and Georgism. As Vitalik Buterin puts in a post linked below, “… there are many different ways

Chicago Rationality will be hosting the Chicago iteration of the ACX/SSC Meetups Everywhere on Sunday, September 18th in Grant Park. (ACX is the abbreviation for Astral Codex Ten — the blog formerly known as Slate Star Codex) We will be meeting here: 86HJV9FH+84 (this is on the north side of Balbo

We will be having our monthly discussion meetup on Saturday, 9/3 at 2pm. The topic will be somewhat meta this month. We will discuss the rationality “movement,” the rationality organizers retreat that I (Todd) went to in July, and what the Chicago Rationality group is even doing. DATE & LOCATION

For the August discussion meetup, we’ll be cautiously, tentatively, and with assumptions of good faith all around (!) prodding at the culture war by discussing the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court. This decision overturns Roe v Wade. We have many directions we can go in including the

For this meetup, we’ll be discussing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (AKA UFOs) such as those observed by the US military. There’s a range of topics we can touch on, including conspiracy theories, Bayesian priors for aliens, and the non-alien, non-conspiracy explanations for UAP/UFOs. We have a few different resources related to

For this meetup, we’ll be discussing America’s internal instability. Issues include the factors contributing to the instability, the degree to which this is new, and how the instability might evolve in the future. Suggested (and optional!) reading or listening (Thanks for these, Le!): “We Are Living in the Age of

Note: This meetup is one of the Astral Codex Ten Schelling Point meetups for Spring 2022.   For our May meetup, we will be discussing the seeming slowdown of progress and lack of “genius” in many fields — despite the vastly larger and better resourced population working on, well, just about everything.