Hi,
Handle: saph
Location: Germany (hope my English is not too bad for LW...)
Birth: 1983
Occupation: mathematician
I was thinking quite a lot for myself about topics like
understanding and mind models
quantitative arguments
scientific method and experiments
etc...
and after discovering LW some days ago I have tried to compare my “results” to the posts here. It was interesting to see that many ideas I had so far were also “discovered” by other people but I was also a little bit proud that I have got so far on my own. Probably this is the right place for me to start reading :-).
I am an Atheist, of course, but cannot claim many other standard labels as mine. Probably “a human being with a desire to understand as much of the universe as possible” is a good approximation. I like learning and teaching, which is why I am interested in artificial intelligence. I am surrounded by people with strange beliefs, which is why I am interested in learning methods on how to teach someone to question his/her beliefs. And while doing so, I might discover the one or other wrong assumption in my own thinking.
I hope to spend some nice time here and probably I can contribute something in the future...
While I agree with your comment, I have an observation to make. While driving a car, I found it quite useful to consider the car as an extended part of my body. The same is true for spoons, knives and forks while eating.