The next monthly discussion meetup is Saturday, March 4 @ 2 PM (see below for location details). NOTE: The meeting space can be cold/chilly in the winter, so wear layers. For this up-coming meetup, we’re going to discuss urban planning. This topic could go in many directions, so feel free

For this month’s social meetup/get-together, we’re going to meet at Ten Cat Tavern, a quiet little bar with a couple pool tables, a few arcade games (I think), and a neat little lounge in the back with a fire place and an eclectic collection of furniture. We ended up there

The next monthly discussion meetup is Saturday, February 4 @ 2 PM (see below for location details). My apologies for not sending this sooner. I want to emphasize in particular for this meetup that you should feel free to come to the meetup even if you don’t do any (or

The next monthly discussion meetup is Saturday, January 7 @ 2 PM (see below for location details). For better or for worse, a significant portion of our adult lives is dedicated to working, so it’s worth thinking about how we choose (or arrive at or fall into) our career/jobs. This

For this month’s social meetup/get-together, we’re going to meet at The Long Room, a neighborhood bar in Ravenswood. We’ll meet next Sunday, December 18 starting at 2 PM. All are welcome, whether you’ve come to a meetup before or not. I’ll be there starting at 2, but feel free to

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