As well as programming for a living, I’m a semi-professional cryptographer and cryptanalyst; read more on my work there. Another interest important to me is sexual politics; I am bi, poly and kinky, and have been known to organise events related to these themes (BiCon, Polyday, and a fetish nightclub). I get the impression that I’m politically to the left of much of this site; one thing I’d like to be able to talk about here one day is how to apply what we discuss to everyday politics.
Yes, it would be interesting. It would involve massively changing the current gender political programs on all sides, which are all ideologies with terrible epistemic hygiene. I’ll try to talk about this more when I can.
OK, let’s get this started. There seems to be no way of doing this that doesn’t sound like a personal ad.
Handle: ciphergoth
Name: Paul Crowley
Location: London
Age: born 1971
Occupation: Programmer
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As well as programming for a living, I’m a semi-professional cryptographer and cryptanalyst; read more on my work there. Another interest important to me is sexual politics; I am bi, poly and kinky, and have been known to organise events related to these themes (BiCon, Polyday, and a fetish nightclub). I get the impression that I’m politically to the left of much of this site; one thing I’d like to be able to talk about here one day is how to apply what we discuss to everyday politics.
What would it look like to apply rationalist techniques to sexual politics? The best guess I have is “interesting”, but I don’t know in what way.
Yes, it would be interesting. It would involve massively changing the current gender political programs on all sides, which are all ideologies with terrible epistemic hygiene. I’ll try to talk about this more when I can.