I’m here to get better at accomplishing my goals. I’d also like to get better at figuring out what my goals are, but I don’t know if LW will help with that.
I don’t identify as an aspiring rationalist. I try to be rational, but I am generally leery of identifying as much of anything. Labels are a useful layer of abstraction for dealing with people you don’t really know well enough to consider as individuals, but I don’t see much benefit in internally applying labels to oneself. If you do find it useful to think of yourself as an aspiring rationalist, I’d like to know what benefits you’re seeing.
I have not so much lurked as sporadically encountered LW over the past several years. I don’t recall how I first found the site, but I have followed links here on several separate occasions.
My historical usage pattern:
Follow a link to LW
Open a half dozen tabs (much like I do on TVTropes)
Read the tabs (usually from the sequences)
Realize that I’ve hit mental saturation
Close LW until the next time I stumble across a link
I became more interested in LW as a community when I got to know a community member in RL, but I still didn’t register because I have an aversion to opening myself up to potentially hurtful comments on the internet, and LW seems particularly prone to the type of comment which I find most difficult to deal with. Then I decided to improve my criticism handling skills, so I registered.
Hello, I’m Jennifer.
I’m here to get better at accomplishing my goals. I’d also like to get better at figuring out what my goals are, but I don’t know if LW will help with that.
I don’t identify as an aspiring rationalist. I try to be rational, but I am generally leery of identifying as much of anything. Labels are a useful layer of abstraction for dealing with people you don’t really know well enough to consider as individuals, but I don’t see much benefit in internally applying labels to oneself. If you do find it useful to think of yourself as an aspiring rationalist, I’d like to know what benefits you’re seeing.
I have not so much lurked as sporadically encountered LW over the past several years. I don’t recall how I first found the site, but I have followed links here on several separate occasions.
My historical usage pattern:
Follow a link to LW
Open a half dozen tabs (much like I do on TVTropes)
Read the tabs (usually from the sequences)
Realize that I’ve hit mental saturation
Close LW until the next time I stumble across a link
I became more interested in LW as a community when I got to know a community member in RL, but I still didn’t register because I have an aversion to opening myself up to potentially hurtful comments on the internet, and LW seems particularly prone to the type of comment which I find most difficult to deal with. Then I decided to improve my criticism handling skills, so I registered.