I discovered LessWrong maybe one or two years ago after reading about it on RationalWiki after searching online for a community of autodidacts (a Quora user recommended this place), and after googling Alfred Korzybski’s phrase ‘the map is not the territory’. I’ve been reading LessWrong intensively since I read my first page and first article. I thought I had developed a unique mindset, but was impressed to see that this community had discovered a lot of the same ideas and so many more. I left high school specifically so I could make sense of everything and figure what I should do if there’s anything I should do. I now intend to take an online adult high school advanced functions course so I may study computer science in university. Besides computer science, I want to study neuroscience. I want to be a malware analyst and a neuroscientist. (Maybe one day I will work as a sort of sci-fi brain malware exorcist :P) But my actual skills lie in a formal understanding of persuasion, disagreement resolution, rhetoric, dialectics, communication, justification theory, and philosophy of argument. There should be an umbrella term for all this stuff; they are all closely related conceptually.
Other notable characteristics:
I also have a deep appreciation for worldbuilding, symbolism, personality psychology (which I have some serious opinions about), and cellular automata.
I made my own Game of Life ruleset using Golly.
I’d tell of my Big 5 and MBTI results but I hate those models. So instead, I’ll tell just tell you that I’m argumentative but diplomatic and gently critical. I am bursting with self-esteem. I am enthusiastic because there is no excuse to permanently giving up and not because it will be easy to safely achieve perfection. I am always stressing the importance of consequentialism and always defending deontological-seeming choices on consequentialist grounds, just as any consequence-concerned consequentialist-identifier would. I have no idea what Hogwarts house I belong to.
I use all the major cultural hubs of the web, the most popular sites on which one may socialize, and those sites which are especially facilitative of internet friendships
I have internet friends of multitudinous backgrounds and persuasions and I would welcome more
I love going on long walks, in the day and in the night. My longest was ten hours! The empty suburban streets of the night can induce reflection and feelings of liberation like few other things can. I’ve had this habit since I was just 14.
I am compiling insights on task and resource management, aka insights on beating akrasia.
Ray Kurzweil saved me from suicide. I’m no longer as optimistic about the future as when I started reading his stuff, but I see there is a life-worthy chance for humanity to get better.
I would rather have many friends who are supposed to be my enemies than many enemies who are supposed to be my friends.
The bullet point immediately above this one is also my motto.
I discovered LessWrong maybe one or two years ago after reading about it on RationalWiki after searching online for a community of autodidacts (a Quora user recommended this place), and after googling Alfred Korzybski’s phrase ‘the map is not the territory’. I’ve been reading LessWrong intensively since I read my first page and first article. I thought I had developed a unique mindset, but was impressed to see that this community had discovered a lot of the same ideas and so many more. I left high school specifically so I could make sense of everything and figure what I should do if there’s anything I should do. I now intend to take an online adult high school advanced functions course so I may study computer science in university. Besides computer science, I want to study neuroscience. I want to be a malware analyst and a neuroscientist. (Maybe one day I will work as a sort of sci-fi brain malware exorcist :P) But my actual skills lie in a formal understanding of persuasion, disagreement resolution, rhetoric, dialectics, communication, justification theory, and philosophy of argument. There should be an umbrella term for all this stuff; they are all closely related conceptually.
Other notable characteristics:
I also have a deep appreciation for worldbuilding, symbolism, personality psychology (which I have some serious opinions about), and cellular automata.
I made my own Game of Life ruleset using Golly.
I’d tell of my Big 5 and MBTI results but I hate those models. So instead, I’ll tell just tell you that I’m argumentative but diplomatic and gently critical. I am bursting with self-esteem. I am enthusiastic because there is no excuse to permanently giving up and not because it will be easy to safely achieve perfection. I am always stressing the importance of consequentialism and always defending deontological-seeming choices on consequentialist grounds, just as any consequence-concerned consequentialist-identifier would. I have no idea what Hogwarts house I belong to.
I use all the major cultural hubs of the web, the most popular sites on which one may socialize, and those sites which are especially facilitative of internet friendships
I have internet friends of multitudinous backgrounds and persuasions and I would welcome more
I love going on long walks, in the day and in the night. My longest was ten hours! The empty suburban streets of the night can induce reflection and feelings of liberation like few other things can. I’ve had this habit since I was just 14.
I am compiling insights on task and resource management, aka insights on beating akrasia.
Ray Kurzweil saved me from suicide. I’m no longer as optimistic about the future as when I started reading his stuff, but I see there is a life-worthy chance for humanity to get better.
I would rather have many friends who are supposed to be my enemies than many enemies who are supposed to be my friends.
The bullet point immediately above this one is also my motto.