Hello, LessWrong. I’m 20 years old, originally from Bulgaria, living and studying Software Engineering in London (just finished my 1st year). I have always wanted to know a lot about human thinking, because of my need to be as optimal as possible plus my interest in technical things plus my tendency to seek rigorous explanations. I still have a deep interest in psychology and I see some potential very powerful applications I’ll feel inefficient without. The second thing I love is programming.
As a rationalist, I’m very strict to myself. I always go for the expected outcome, which usually brings me to sacrifice whatever brings short-term pleasure and happiness in favor of self-improvement (my time-management is too created with this in mind). Despite that, I’m usually quite happy in life. My ideal for spending my day is reading and studying and practicing programming, maybe exercising. Unfortunately, I can’t even spend half of my day so efficiently because of procrastination (btw I’m writing this in the efficient parts of today :D), but I’m gradually overcoming it, and I’m putting a lot of effort to battle it. While still battling it, I can use LessWrong a lot, as it’s productive and fun—hopefully it’ll replace less efficient activities.
Google brought me here—I was reading Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Thinking (2002) and I sought additional information on a certain thingy. It was then when I saw this community and my heart started beating fast—I already had my own idea of rationalism and I knew a few people who follow it and own it as much as I do (they are also my closest friends). Eventually, I found my idea to be more extremely rational than this community’s idea. I enjoyed Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter a lot and I’m quite similar to Harry Potter, although there are many cases where I consider his actions to be irrational (I’m quite convinced that the author is aware of those, as some of them can even be explained by simple biases) - despite this, I’m very much looking forward to the latest chapters.
I am currently looking forward to meeting any rationalist (online), as I’m looking for exchange of information and I always have tons of questions, and rationalists are expected to have many of the answers I’m seeking, some of them are so hard to get. I have useful information to share as well.
I will also post in “tell your rationalist story”.
Hello, LessWrong. I’m 20 years old, originally from Bulgaria, living and studying Software Engineering in London (just finished my 1st year). I have always wanted to know a lot about human thinking, because of my need to be as optimal as possible plus my interest in technical things plus my tendency to seek rigorous explanations. I still have a deep interest in psychology and I see some potential very powerful applications I’ll feel inefficient without. The second thing I love is programming.
As a rationalist, I’m very strict to myself. I always go for the expected outcome, which usually brings me to sacrifice whatever brings short-term pleasure and happiness in favor of self-improvement (my time-management is too created with this in mind). Despite that, I’m usually quite happy in life. My ideal for spending my day is reading and studying and practicing programming, maybe exercising. Unfortunately, I can’t even spend half of my day so efficiently because of procrastination (btw I’m writing this in the efficient parts of today :D), but I’m gradually overcoming it, and I’m putting a lot of effort to battle it. While still battling it, I can use LessWrong a lot, as it’s productive and fun—hopefully it’ll replace less efficient activities.
Google brought me here—I was reading Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Thinking (2002) and I sought additional information on a certain thingy. It was then when I saw this community and my heart started beating fast—I already had my own idea of rationalism and I knew a few people who follow it and own it as much as I do (they are also my closest friends). Eventually, I found my idea to be more extremely rational than this community’s idea. I enjoyed Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter a lot and I’m quite similar to Harry Potter, although there are many cases where I consider his actions to be irrational (I’m quite convinced that the author is aware of those, as some of them can even be explained by simple biases) - despite this, I’m very much looking forward to the latest chapters.
I am currently looking forward to meeting any rationalist (online), as I’m looking for exchange of information and I always have tons of questions, and rationalists are expected to have many of the answers I’m seeking, some of them are so hard to get. I have useful information to share as well.
I will also post in “tell your rationalist story”.