I’m currently an electrical engineering student. I suppose the main thing that drew me here is that I hold uncommon political views (market libertarian/minarchist, generally sympathetic to non-coercive but non-market collective action); I think that view is “correct” for now, but I’m sure that a lot of my reasons for holding those beliefs are faulty, or there’d probably be at least a few more people who agree with me. I want to determine exactly what’s happening (and why) when politics and political philosophy come up in a conversation/internal monologue and I end up thinking to myself “Ah, good, my prior beliefs were exactly correct!”, with the eventual goal of refining/discarding/bolstering those beliefs, because the chances that they actually were correct 100% of the time is vanishingly small.
That’s what got me hooked on LW, at least, but pretty much everything here is interesting.
I’m currently an electrical engineering student. I suppose the main thing that drew me here is that I hold uncommon political views (market libertarian/minarchist, generally sympathetic to non-coercive but non-market collective action); I think that view is “correct” for now, but I’m sure that a lot of my reasons for holding those beliefs are faulty, or there’d probably be at least a few more people who agree with me. I want to determine exactly what’s happening (and why) when politics and political philosophy come up in a conversation/internal monologue and I end up thinking to myself “Ah, good, my prior beliefs were exactly correct!”, with the eventual goal of refining/discarding/bolstering those beliefs, because the chances that they actually were correct 100% of the time is vanishingly small.
That’s what got me hooked on LW, at least, but pretty much everything here is interesting.