Some of it is just community belonging, but not everything.
Some of the changes I’ve made are explicitly related to becoming more rational: getting better at probability estimates, being more likely to make decisions based on evidence instead of convention, getting in the habit of making changes to my behavior in response to real-world results.
Some of what’s changed about me is just the effect of being friends with people who aren’t students or academics—I knew very little about life as a 20- or 30-something with a private-sector job. And some of it is just the techie counterculture (which I enjoy quite a bit.) You know, vibrams/ancap/science fiction/burning man/crossfittery/self-quantification/hacker ethos.
Some of it is just community belonging, but not everything.
Some of the changes I’ve made are explicitly related to becoming more rational: getting better at probability estimates, being more likely to make decisions based on evidence instead of convention, getting in the habit of making changes to my behavior in response to real-world results.
Some of what’s changed about me is just the effect of being friends with people who aren’t students or academics—I knew very little about life as a 20- or 30-something with a private-sector job. And some of it is just the techie counterculture (which I enjoy quite a bit.) You know, vibrams/ancap/science fiction/burning man/crossfittery/self-quantification/hacker ethos.