An aspiring rationalist who picked a lousy time to move to Boston for the social scene, I came for the fanfic and stayed for the principle of charity. This lead to me growing interested in another sort of effective charity, x-risk, and in meeting people who were weird in ways I find familiar and comfortable. If you’re ever Boston area and there isn’t a pandemic on, feel free to say hi.
I’d like to read things about turning rationality into money and/or power as well as things about introducing people to rationality. I commit to reading and commenting on the first ten examples of either that are brought to my attention.
Survey finished- erred on the side of not screwing up Yvain’s numbers where possible, but I’m curious what the ideal way to mark down Religious Background for results of families that divorced over religious disagreement is. Also had a really strong desire (thwarted, but present) to put a SQL injection into the question about whether the universe is a simulation, which is a bad idea no matter what the answer turns out to be or whether I could conceivably affect the simulation. It’s like a pascal’s wager mixed with a Russian roulette, only the gun is fully loaded. Either I screw up the numbers, I tank the survey, or I crash the simulation. Dear brain, we were reading about akrasia just recently, were you paying attention?