Hello, community. I’m another recruit from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. After reading the first few chapters and seeing that it lacked the vagueness, unbending archetypes, and overt because the author says so theme that usually drives me away from fiction, then reading Less Wrong’s (Eliezer’s?) philosophy of fanfiction, I proceeded to read through the Sequences.
After struggling with the question of when I became a rationalist, I think the least wrong answer is that I just don’t remember. I both remember less of my childhood than others seem to and developed more quickly. I could rationalize a few things, but I don’t think that’s going to be helpful.
Anyway, I’m 21 with an A.A. in Nothing in Particular and going for a B.S. in Mathematics and maybe other useful majors in November.
P.S.
“Sometimes, when this flawed world seems unusually hateful, I wonder whether there might be some other place, far away, where I should have been… But the stars are so very, very far away… And I wonder what I would dream about, if I slept for a long, long time.”
Quirrell FTW, indeed.
Hello, community. I’m another recruit from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. After reading the first few chapters and seeing that it lacked the vagueness, unbending archetypes, and overt because the author says so theme that usually drives me away from fiction, then reading Less Wrong’s (Eliezer’s?) philosophy of fanfiction, I proceeded to read through the Sequences.
After struggling with the question of when I became a rationalist, I think the least wrong answer is that I just don’t remember. I both remember less of my childhood than others seem to and developed more quickly. I could rationalize a few things, but I don’t think that’s going to be helpful.
Anyway, I’m 21 with an A.A. in Nothing in Particular and going for a B.S. in Mathematics and maybe other useful majors in November.
P.S. Quirrell FTW
Welcome!
There’s a MOR discussion thread, if you hadn’t seen it.
P.S. “Sometimes, when this flawed world seems unusually hateful, I wonder whether there might be some other place, far away, where I should have been… But the stars are so very, very far away… And I wonder what I would dream about, if I slept for a long, long time.” Quirrell FTW, indeed.
Yes.