I also didn’t stick with LW at the first time. I found an article linked from somewhere, I believe it was “Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism”, I was impressed, but then I left. A year or two later, I again randomly found an article, then I saw it was the same website as the previous one, so I was like “Oh, this website contains multiple interesting articles” and started clicking on random links in text. Then I cautiously posted a few comments in the Open Thread—some got downvotes, some got upvotes—and kept reading...
So, somewhere in the parallel Everett branch there is a version of me that didn’t return to LW anymore, or just returned, read one article, and left again. Poor guy; he probably spends a lot of time having stupid debates on other websites.
What do you believe you would have done differently, if you would stick around here at 16?
I also didn’t stick with LW at the first time. I found an article linked from somewhere, I believe it was “Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism”, I was impressed, but then I left. A year or two later, I again randomly found an article, then I saw it was the same website as the previous one, so I was like “Oh, this website contains multiple interesting articles” and started clicking on random links in text. Then I cautiously posted a few comments in the Open Thread—some got downvotes, some got upvotes—and kept reading...
So, somewhere in the parallel Everett branch there is a version of me that didn’t return to LW anymore, or just returned, read one article, and left again. Poor guy; he probably spends a lot of time having stupid debates on other websites.
What do you believe you would have done differently, if you would stick around here at 16?