Hey everyone! I’m a longtime lurker but I’ve never gotten around to making an account before now. I think my introduction to this site was actually someone linking to the Baby-Eating Aliens story a few years ago, which I guess isn’t a common way to find this site. I’ve since read all of the sequences twice, and most of the other posts. Recent (unfounded, I hope) discussion about the site dying have made me finally get an account.
I’m a physics PhD student working in biophysics and computer simulations, and I also read philosophy and psychology in my free time. Hopefully I’ll have some interesting things to contribute; maybe a few posts or mini-sequences about just how useful learning a programming language is to your ability to think and plan, or about the gulf between the scientific methods employed by physics versus biology. Or maybe some clarifications on the interpretations of quantum mechanics. Hopefully there’s something I can say that hasn’t been said already and much better by someone else, even if it’s just links to interesting articles I find as I scour the net.
In any case, Less Wrong has been insanely useful to me over the past few years. Reading it is how I was introduced to Anki, sleep hygiene, methods of avoiding procrastination, and all sorts of useful information I have successfully employed in my daily life.
Hey everyone! I’m a longtime lurker but I’ve never gotten around to making an account before now. I think my introduction to this site was actually someone linking to the Baby-Eating Aliens story a few years ago, which I guess isn’t a common way to find this site. I’ve since read all of the sequences twice, and most of the other posts. Recent (unfounded, I hope) discussion about the site dying have made me finally get an account.
I’m a physics PhD student working in biophysics and computer simulations, and I also read philosophy and psychology in my free time. Hopefully I’ll have some interesting things to contribute; maybe a few posts or mini-sequences about just how useful learning a programming language is to your ability to think and plan, or about the gulf between the scientific methods employed by physics versus biology. Or maybe some clarifications on the interpretations of quantum mechanics. Hopefully there’s something I can say that hasn’t been said already and much better by someone else, even if it’s just links to interesting articles I find as I scour the net.
In any case, Less Wrong has been insanely useful to me over the past few years. Reading it is how I was introduced to Anki, sleep hygiene, methods of avoiding procrastination, and all sorts of useful information I have successfully employed in my daily life.