I’m Jandila (not my birth, legal or even everyday name), I’m a 28-year old transgendered woman living in Minnesota. I’ve been following EY’s writings off and on since many years ago on the sl4 mailing list, mostly on the topic of AI; initially I got interested in cognitive architecture and FAI due to a sci-fi novel I’ve been working on forever. I discovered LW a few years ago but only recently started posting; somehow I missed this thread until just recently.
I’ve been interested in bias and how people think, and in modifying my own instrumental ability to understand and work around it, for many years. I’m on the autistic spectrum and have many clusters of neurological weirdness; I think this provided an early incentive to understand “how people think” so I could signal-match better.
So far I’ve stuck around because I like LW’s core mission and what it stands for in abstract; I also feel that the community here is a bit too homogenous in terms of demographics for a community with such an ostensibly far-reaching, global goal, and thus want to see the perspective base broadened (and am encouraged by the recent influx of female members).
Hey everyone.
I’m Jandila (not my birth, legal or even everyday name), I’m a 28-year old transgendered woman living in Minnesota. I’ve been following EY’s writings off and on since many years ago on the sl4 mailing list, mostly on the topic of AI; initially I got interested in cognitive architecture and FAI due to a sci-fi novel I’ve been working on forever. I discovered LW a few years ago but only recently started posting; somehow I missed this thread until just recently.
I’ve been interested in bias and how people think, and in modifying my own instrumental ability to understand and work around it, for many years. I’m on the autistic spectrum and have many clusters of neurological weirdness; I think this provided an early incentive to understand “how people think” so I could signal-match better.
So far I’ve stuck around because I like LW’s core mission and what it stands for in abstract; I also feel that the community here is a bit too homogenous in terms of demographics for a community with such an ostensibly far-reaching, global goal, and thus want to see the perspective base broadened (and am encouraged by the recent influx of female members).
Welcome!