I’ve been following EY and LW for about four years now. I’m fairly new to posting though. I started out as a “republican” in elementary school, then turned into a “libertarian” in high school because I didn’t care for many conservative positions. Then an “objectivist” in college, because I didn’t care for the fact that libertarianism only extended to politics and not ethics. Then I became frustrated with the Objectivist community and their inability to adapt to the real world so I became a “all the people I’ve met who self-identify as one of these labels has turned out to be really obnoxious so I really don’t want to convolute discussions by using a label”-ist. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered Rationalism and so far it has been the most accurate label and also the most complete system so far.
My end-game is to end death (and if entropically possible, reverse it). Which is a pretty big practical problem. As such, I don’t have a ton of interest in many of the ethical questions because more often than not, my answer is: “If we can end or reverse death, it doesn’t matter.” .Short-term, my goal is to become rich enough to retire fairly early and have a significant amount of money that can be used to fund various worthy causes and allow me to continue this path full-time. I’m probably 75% of the way there. When I’m not trying to build wealth, most of my free time is spent tinkering with various AI algorithms, exploring number theory, or building prototypes of various gadgets (my latest one is a hard drive that stores data using energy rather than matter. Nevermind the fact that it can only store about 16 bytes.).
Hi all,
I’ve been following EY and LW for about four years now. I’m fairly new to posting though. I started out as a “republican” in elementary school, then turned into a “libertarian” in high school because I didn’t care for many conservative positions. Then an “objectivist” in college, because I didn’t care for the fact that libertarianism only extended to politics and not ethics. Then I became frustrated with the Objectivist community and their inability to adapt to the real world so I became a “all the people I’ve met who self-identify as one of these labels has turned out to be really obnoxious so I really don’t want to convolute discussions by using a label”-ist. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered Rationalism and so far it has been the most accurate label and also the most complete system so far.
My end-game is to end death (and if entropically possible, reverse it). Which is a pretty big practical problem. As such, I don’t have a ton of interest in many of the ethical questions because more often than not, my answer is: “If we can end or reverse death, it doesn’t matter.” .Short-term, my goal is to become rich enough to retire fairly early and have a significant amount of money that can be used to fund various worthy causes and allow me to continue this path full-time. I’m probably 75% of the way there. When I’m not trying to build wealth, most of my free time is spent tinkering with various AI algorithms, exploring number theory, or building prototypes of various gadgets (my latest one is a hard drive that stores data using energy rather than matter. Nevermind the fact that it can only store about 16 bytes.).