I’ve wanted to join the rationality community for a little while now, and I finally worked up the courage after a brief but informative discussion with Anna Salamon, CFAR’s executive director (who was as kind as I was nervous).
I’m working on finishing up a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and I plan on continuing to a doctorate in some branch of decision or control theory. I also study philosophy, fiction writing, and computer science.
Since becoming aware of rationality in general, and Eliezer Yudkowsky’s way of making everything make sense, I’ve gotten pretty heavily into cognitive psychology and metacognition.
To be frank, I understand that I’m a rank amateur in the field of rationality in general, but I’m looking forward to trying to get better. So if you’re downvoting me, or even upvoting me, explaining why in a comment or message would be extremely helpful, so I can take the time to reinforce my positive cognitive pathways, and prune my negative ones.
Hello, my name is Daniel.
I’ve wanted to join the rationality community for a little while now, and I finally worked up the courage after a brief but informative discussion with Anna Salamon, CFAR’s executive director (who was as kind as I was nervous).
I’m working on finishing up a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and I plan on continuing to a doctorate in some branch of decision or control theory. I also study philosophy, fiction writing, and computer science.
Since becoming aware of rationality in general, and Eliezer Yudkowsky’s way of making everything make sense, I’ve gotten pretty heavily into cognitive psychology and metacognition.
To be frank, I understand that I’m a rank amateur in the field of rationality in general, but I’m looking forward to trying to get better. So if you’re downvoting me, or even upvoting me, explaining why in a comment or message would be extremely helpful, so I can take the time to reinforce my positive cognitive pathways, and prune my negative ones.
See you in the threads!