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Lost Ones is the public offshoot of the Atlas fellowship community. The demographic of the community includes high-potential young adults who are adjacent to the rationality, EA or transhumanist community. So far, 500 members are in its discord which is run by Uli.
The project aims to encourage close connections in the rat/EA adjacent communities. We are hosting meetups in cities where Lost Ones members live. In Lost Ones, there is a channel dedicated to events. It's easy to see where members live because of their tags.
For the meetup organizer to host gatherings. In meetups, members often enjoy discussing superintelligence, impact without university, category theory, coworking and so on.
Yoyo will be hosting several meetups. The discord server is run by Uli.
I run a Chinese-Canadian cultural exchange in collaboration with a STEM school in Shenzhen in 2022.
In 2023, I co-organized TEDxColumbiaLakeYouth from scratch with friends, which received an endorsement from the prime minister of Canada and was attended by prominent scientists.
I also ran a series of neuroscience textbook readings for a community which contains 150+ members on discord.
Within Lost Ones, there's been a San Francisco meetup. I ran virtual coworking and a virtual watch party previously.
Likely failure modes include:
People coordinate times that everyone is free and will end up not running any gatherings at all. This can be mitigated by choosing a time that works for central members of the meetup and everyone
Lack of planning beforehand, leading to the meetup being un-fun. The solution would be writing goals, and blocking off time in the calendar to plan the gathering.
not funded yet!