Hi! I’m Helaman Wilson, I’m living in New Zealand with my physicist father, almost-graduated-molecular-biologist mother, and six of my seven siblings.
I’ve been homeschooled as in “given support, guidance, and library access” for essentially my entire life, which currently clocks in at nearly twenty two years from birth. I’ve also been raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and, having done my best to honestly weigh the evidence for its’ doctrine-as-I-understand-it, find myself a firm believer.
I found the Rational meta-community via the TvTropes>HPMOR chain, but mostly stayed peripheral due to Reddit’s TOS and the lack of fiction community on LessWrong. I was an active participant in Marked for Death, but left over GMing disagreements about two years in.
I’m now joining LessWrong, in part because I want more well-read friends, and in part because I like the updated site design. I have variably-fringe theories to debate!
If you want to place me elsewhere, it’s almost always a variant of Horatio Von Becker, or LordVonBecker on Giant in the Playground, due to the shorter character limit.
Thanks. I’m also having account troubles, which will hopefully be sorted by then. (How’d you find the August 2021 thread, by the way? Latest I could find was July for some reason.)
The actual algorithm I followed was remembering that habryka posts them and going to his page to find the one he posted most recently. Not sure what the most principled way to find it is, though...
Hi! I’m Helaman Wilson, I’m living in New Zealand with my physicist father, almost-graduated-molecular-biologist mother, and six of my seven siblings.
I’ve been homeschooled as in “given support, guidance, and library access” for essentially my entire life, which currently clocks in at nearly twenty two years from birth. I’ve also been raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and, having done my best to honestly weigh the evidence for its’ doctrine-as-I-understand-it, find myself a firm believer.
I found the Rational meta-community via the TvTropes>HPMOR chain, but mostly stayed peripheral due to Reddit’s TOS and the lack of fiction community on LessWrong. I was an active participant in Marked for Death, but left over GMing disagreements about two years in.
I’m now joining LessWrong, in part because I want more well-read friends, and in part because I like the updated site design. I have variably-fringe theories to debate!
If you want to place me elsewhere, it’s almost always a variant of Horatio Von Becker, or LordVonBecker on Giant in the Playground, due to the shorter character limit.
Welcome; glad to have you here!
Just so you know, this is the August 2020 thread, and the August 2021 thread is at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QqnQJYYW6zhT62F6Z/open-and-welcome-thread-august-2021 -- alternatively, you could wait three days for habryka to post the September 2021 thread, which might see more traffic in the early month than the old thread does at the end of the month.
Thanks. I’m also having account troubles, which will hopefully be sorted by then. (How’d you find the August 2021 thread, by the way? Latest I could find was July for some reason.)
The actual algorithm I followed was remembering that habryka posts them and going to his page to find the one he posted most recently. Not sure what the most principled way to find it is, though...