Sunday meetup: The virtue of being specific

[John Salvatier]

Meetup this Sunday! 

Being specific and getting others to be specific is a skill I think is pretty useful for good communication and discussion. Being specific is about tying language to concrete examples and well understood ideas. 

For example, when trying to explain the idea of a Turing machine to someone who's not familiar with it, you might simulate a small Turing machine on paper for them.

And if you were explaining the virtue of being specific to someone who didn't know about it, you might give them an example of giving an example.

We'll discuss and practice

• Rationalist taboo
  
• Giving and asking for examples
• Knowing when to be more specific

Afterwards, we'll have dinner as usual. See you there!

What: Meetup

Where: 1900 NE 68th St, Seattle, WA 98115

When: Sunday, June 16

[Bob De Dea]

This week I can do it -- yay!

4:00 pm, right?

:) Bob

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[John Salvatier]

Yup! Look forward to meeting you Bob! Thanks for mentioning the time, I forgot to add that. Also, newcomers always welcome!

[Quinn Maurmann]

Cool, I'll try to make it. If we're doing anything like the talks from last time, I could give an overview of MIRI's semi-recent "Definability of Truth in Probabilistic Logic" paper.

Quinn

[John Salvatier]

Hey Quinn! That sounds great: I'd love to hear a summary!

[Yoni Fogel]

I'm back in Seattle (for good) and I'm in.

- Yoni

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:24 AM, John Salvatier <jsalv...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Nate Soares]

I'd like to come (for the first time). I look forward to meeting you folks.

[John Salvatier]

Great! Look forward to meeting you too Nate!