This has filled me with the distressing thought that the badness of death might somehow be diminished because of this
I find this statement disturbing. This reads as if you’d really like X to be as horrible as possible to justify your preexisting decision of fighting X.
status quo bias
Hi!
Long time lurker here.
I’m 26 years old, CS graduate living in Wrocław (Poland), professional compiler developer, cryptography research assistant and programmer. I’m an atheist (quite possibly thanks to LW). I consider the world to be overall interesting. I have many interests and I always have more things to do than I have time for. I’m motivated by curiosity. I’m less risk-averse than most people around me, but also less patient. I have a creative mind and love chellanges. While being fairly successful lone wolf until now, I seek to improve my people skills because I belive I can’t get much further all by myself.
When I found LW for the first time, it absorbed me. It took me about 4 months at 4-6h a day to read all of the Sequences and comments. While I strongly disagree with some of the material, I consider LW to have accelerated my personal developement 2 to 3 times simply by virtue of critical mass and high singal to noise ratio. I don’t know any better hub for thought (links welcome!). I joined becuse I finally have something to say.
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