I attended a low tier university, after having left a higher tier university because of mental health issues.
I consistently struggled to find peers who were interested in studying the things I was interested in, or simply learning for learning’s sake. I was aware that my program of supplementary self education would have benefited from finding peers, though I never successfully found peers to study with.
There’s one: the coordination problem of discovering peers. This seems broadly improved by the existence of an internet, examples in this forum, and in subcommunities like reddit, but I’m continually uncertain how to use those tools to meet people. So there’s a second coordination problem: how to use the tools.
Agreed. I wish I’d found this community like 3 years earlier (~2014), it could’ve changed the course of my life. Note that aspiring rationalists or “sanepunks” remain in short supply; I just hosted an ACX meetup in a city of 1.2 million, and no one showed up.
I attended a low tier university, after having left a higher tier university because of mental health issues.
I consistently struggled to find peers who were interested in studying the things I was interested in, or simply learning for learning’s sake. I was aware that my program of supplementary self education would have benefited from finding peers, though I never successfully found peers to study with.
There’s one: the coordination problem of discovering peers. This seems broadly improved by the existence of an internet, examples in this forum, and in subcommunities like reddit, but I’m continually uncertain how to use those tools to meet people. So there’s a second coordination problem: how to use the tools.
Agreed. I wish I’d found this community like 3 years earlier (~2014), it could’ve changed the course of my life. Note that aspiring rationalists or “sanepunks” remain in short supply; I just hosted an ACX meetup in a city of 1.2 million, and no one showed up.