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Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
Can I have access to modifying these events? I'm an organizer for PEAR. I'm glad that EA Forum can pull things from the meet-up website but most of our meet-up events are placeholders until further updates can be made.
Case in point: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Effective-Altruists-and-Rationalists/events/sbndssydcgbgc/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link
Sure thing - I just assigned you as an organizer to the group. You should have access to edit the group's info and events.
We have a contractor who cross-posts EA events from Facebook and Meetup. If you'd prefer to manage your group's events yourself, we can ask the contractor to skip your group.
I would like them to continue because it saves me a lot of time. Does LessWrong have a similar function?
LessWrong doesn't have this event cross-posting. Possibly it's less relevant for their site than the EA Forum.