I take Paul Graham’s advice to keep my identity small, and so describing myself is… odd. I’m not sure I consider rationalism important enough to make it into my identity.
The most important things, I think, are that I’m an individualist and an empiricist. I considered “pragmatist” for the second example, and perhaps that would be more appropriate.
Perhaps vying for third place is that I’m an optimizer. I like thinking about things, I like understanding systems, I like replacing parts with better parts. I think that’s what I enjoy about LW; there’s quite a bit of interest in optimization around here. Now, how to make that function better… :P
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I take Paul Graham’s advice to keep my identity small, and so describing myself is… odd. I’m not sure I consider rationalism important enough to make it into my identity.
The most important things, I think, are that I’m an individualist and an empiricist. I considered “pragmatist” for the second example, and perhaps that would be more appropriate.
Perhaps vying for third place is that I’m an optimizer. I like thinking about things, I like understanding systems, I like replacing parts with better parts. I think that’s what I enjoy about LW; there’s quite a bit of interest in optimization around here. Now, how to make that function better… :P