Education: BA, Natural Sciences (experimental psychology by way of maths, physics, history and philosophy of science and computer science)
I’m here by way of Overcoming Bias which attracted me with its mix of topics I’m interested in (psychology, economics, AI, atheism, rationality). With a lapsed catholic mother and agnostic father I had a half-heartedly religious upbringing but have been an atheist for as long as I can remember thinking about it. Politically my parents were left-liberal/socialist and I would have described myself that way until my early 20s. I’ve been trending increasingly libertarian ever since.
I’m particularly interested in applying rationality to actually ‘winning’ in everyday life. I’m interested in the broad ‘life-hacking’ movement but think it could benefit from a more rigorously rational/scientific approach. I hope to see more discussion of this kind of thing on less wrong.
Handle: mattnewport
Name: Matt Newport
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 30
Occupation: Programmer (3D graphics for games)
Education: BA, Natural Sciences (experimental psychology by way of maths, physics, history and philosophy of science and computer science)
I’m here by way of Overcoming Bias which attracted me with its mix of topics I’m interested in (psychology, economics, AI, atheism, rationality). With a lapsed catholic mother and agnostic father I had a half-heartedly religious upbringing but have been an atheist for as long as I can remember thinking about it. Politically my parents were left-liberal/socialist and I would have described myself that way until my early 20s. I’ve been trending increasingly libertarian ever since.
I’m particularly interested in applying rationality to actually ‘winning’ in everyday life. I’m interested in the broad ‘life-hacking’ movement but think it could benefit from a more rigorously rational/scientific approach. I hope to see more discussion of this kind of thing on less wrong.