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On 10 April 2026, I organized an ACX/LW/rationality meetup.

Initially, I intended for it to be just our regular meetup, and “regular” for Zagreb is between 3 and 10 people having a couple of beers.

Skyler of Rationality Meetups contacted me saying that Scott would be in Zagreb in April, and we coordinated so that the meetup could accommodate Scott's schedule.

At first, I thought, man, this is serious now. I’ll have to actually reserve a table.

Once the “Going” RSVPs started coming in, I was like: shit, this is even more serious now. I’m going to have to reserve two tables.

Soon after, when I first started receiving emails from people announcing that they would be travelling from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and probably other countries which I forgot, I started to panic a little bit.

Luckily, I managed to somehow reserve a big event space from the company where I work. Not sure what would have happened if we stuck to the original venue, but I imagine it would probably be a massive fail. At one point, I think I counted 54 individuals, but could have miscounted.

People mingled, ate [...]

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First published:
April 11th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XWbANFdH8fPyq7Lca/scott-alexander-gentrified-my-meetup

Linkpost URL:
https://blog.d11r.eu/meetup-2026/

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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