Very true, but very unhelpful answer. :/ If you don’t use a car, how will you get to places?
Buses/taxies/motorcycles are probably one of the more convenient forms of transportation nowadays.
The only other thing I can think of are rapid transit, trains, bikes, and planes. But you can’t ride the subway/bike/take a plane with as much flexibility as a car.
Salutations and whatnot! My name is Joyce, I’m a high school sophomore. Probably on the younger side of the age spectrum here, but I don’t mind starting young. The idea of rationality isn’t new to me, I’ve always been more inclined to the “truth”, even when it sometimes hurts. In my mind knowing more about the truth = better person, so that’s my motivation for being here. I’m have better grades than the average, but for the past couple of years the thing I hated most about myself was the fact that I usually “coast” a class, get my A, and then promptly forget everything I’ve done in the class. My goal was “get an A”, not “learn something new”. I’d like to learn new things now, and actually retain it, instead of just coasting by. Knowledge is power. I want to be the best, like no one ever was.
Um. When I was younger, perhaps ten, while I was tinkering with Photoshop, my older cousin approached to me and tried to introduce to me the idea of fallacies. He’s...nine years older than me, so he was a barely an adult. I forgot most of the conversation, but from what I DO remember, blaming a stomachache on the last thing you ate was falling prey to SOME fallacy because it takes a day to digest food and thus you should think about what you ate 24 hours before, not two. (by the way I think this is wrong, your body reacts to bad food quicker than that, and can anyone tell me what fallacy this is? If it exists?) He also said if I wanted to win a lot of arguments I should learn about more fallacies. I was kind of doubtful and sort of didn’t really care about the whole thing, but it must have been significant if the hard drive that is my brain hadn’t completely forgot about it already.
What brought me here was Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and what brought me to HPMoR was the writer Aspen in the Sunlight who wrote the Harry Potter fanfiction series A Year Like None Other (I didn’t capitalize that correctly), and what brought me there was dragcave.net and from there I’m not quite sure. It was nearly three years ago, after all.
Ah, what else should I say. I’m an INTP. Psychology is the loveliest subject ever, oh it’s just the most fun subject ever. I’m sort of taking AP Psych next year. And by that I mean buying the textbook off ebay or something and self-studying it along with my friend from another school who actually has the course, because my school doesn’t offer the class. sigh Milgram’s experiment was interesting and a little shocking, it’s almost become my conversation starter (“Did you know that two-thirds of people would administer 450-volts of electricity through a person because a guy in a white lab coat told them to?”). Not sure what I want to be when I grow up, though I’m very well versed in computer technology. If not that, then law.
Someyears in my life I want to teach for a few years, just to experiment and find out what the best teaching method actually is. Traditional methods are so boring, and since a significant amount of my peers don’t actually respond well to the current learning environment there obviously needs to be some updating to do. Electronics are going to be so cheap in the future, I could probably make my potential students shell out some 30 dollars for a decent tablet, install some heavily modded operating system, (Android/Apple if advanced enough by that time, Linux if not) lock it so my students can’t tinker, and integrate that heavily in the curriculum. Sync my own tablet with all of theirs, kill some poor school’s wi-fi. Maybe actually make a points system. Now that I typed that out it’s losing its effectiveness appeal, but gosh, it’d at least be interesting.