Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Index of rationalist groups in the Bay July 2024, published by Lucie Philippon on July 26, 2024 on LessWrong. The Bay Area rationalist community has an entry problem! Lots of listed groups are dead, the last centralized index disappeared, communication moved to private discord and slacks. This is bad, so we're making a new index, hopefully up to date and as complete as we can! Communication Discord: Bay Area Rationalists: https://discord.gg/EpG4xUVKtf Email Group: BayAreaLessWrong: https://groups.google.com/g/bayarealesswrong Local Meetup Groups Taco Tuesday: by Austin Chen, founder emeritus of Manifold. Check his Manifold questions page for the next date! North Oakland LessWrong Meetup: every Wednesday, hosted by @Czynski. Thursday Dinners in Berkeley: Advertised on the Discord server and Google group, alternating between a few restaurants on the northwest side of UC campus. Bay Area ACX Meetups: For the ACX everywhere meetups twice per year, and some other sporadic events. Housing To find spots in group houses, temporary or long term, you can use the Bay Area EA/Rationality Housing Board. The EA Houses spreadsheet also has some entries in the Bay. It probably works best to ask people in the Bay if they know of housing opportunities, as lots of housing is provided peer-to-peer. EA If you want to discover the EA community, the EA's Guide to Berkeley and The Bay Area is a good resource. Events sometimes get advertised on those websites: SF Bay Area EA calendar on Luma East Bay EA Hangout on Facebook AI Safety There are two AI safety coworking spaces in Berkeley. They sometime accept visitors, so you can try reaching out or applying via their website: FAR Labs Constellation Most AI Safety events don't get advertised publicly, so get in contact with people in the community to know what's happening. We probably missed some other meetups and communities which are public and still active, so feel free to list them in the comments! Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org