Bravo! It all starts with finding the crack in the lens. Now comes the hard, fun, terrible, numinous part of living better than before. Since you’ve already bootstrapped yourself through the sequences, you might want to consider branching out into real space. I say this because it sounds like you’re looking for the practical, real, hands-on experience. A LessWrong meetup, such as the one held near London, might be the very thing you need. A group of like-minded people, engaging in rationality exercises, swapping notes, and basically helping each other get a little bit stronger and feel a little bit better.
You might also be interested in the Rationality Diary. It’s a good place for starting out tallying yourself, making a record of the real behaviors you’ve done, the real plans you’ve made, the real successes and failures you’ve had.It’s a useful tool for keeping yourself honest and seeing how far you’ve come.
And, of course, if you’d just like to participate in the discussion… well, there’s certainly a place for that too.
Glad to have you join the conversation! Hope to see you around soon.
Thanks for the welcome and the useful links, you’re right about the tendency towards meetups which is why I’m going to the one in Bath tomorrow. The rationality diary seems like it should be a useful and interesting addition to my attempts at self improvement, so cheers.
Edit: That open thread is fascinating. I’ve never seen a community with such a high standard of discussion in real time. Even bestof archived depthhub threads don’t touch it. I am going to have to think very carefully about any comments I might make to avoid accidentally eternal septembering this place. I can see I will also have to limit how much time I spend in such threads. I can fully imagine spending an inordinate amount of time on them learning fascinating things.
Hello and welcome to LessWrong!
Bravo! It all starts with finding the crack in the lens. Now comes the hard, fun, terrible, numinous part of living better than before. Since you’ve already bootstrapped yourself through the sequences, you might want to consider branching out into real space. I say this because it sounds like you’re looking for the practical, real, hands-on experience. A LessWrong meetup, such as the one held near London, might be the very thing you need. A group of like-minded people, engaging in rationality exercises, swapping notes, and basically helping each other get a little bit stronger and feel a little bit better.
You might also be interested in the Rationality Diary. It’s a good place for starting out tallying yourself, making a record of the real behaviors you’ve done, the real plans you’ve made, the real successes and failures you’ve had.It’s a useful tool for keeping yourself honest and seeing how far you’ve come.
And, of course, if you’d just like to participate in the discussion… well, there’s certainly a place for that too.
Glad to have you join the conversation! Hope to see you around soon.
Thanks for the welcome and the useful links, you’re right about the tendency towards meetups which is why I’m going to the one in Bath tomorrow. The rationality diary seems like it should be a useful and interesting addition to my attempts at self improvement, so cheers.
Edit: That open thread is fascinating. I’ve never seen a community with such a high standard of discussion in real time. Even bestof archived depthhub threads don’t touch it. I am going to have to think very carefully about any comments I might make to avoid accidentally eternal septembering this place. I can see I will also have to limit how much time I spend in such threads. I can fully imagine spending an inordinate amount of time on them learning fascinating things.
Hey Oliver,
The Bristol EA society meets pretty regularly (weekly/fortnightly), which might also be of interest if you are in the Bristol/Bath area.
Welcome and I’ll see you at the Bath meetup!
See you on tuesday