Hi there everyone, happy mid-winter festive period.
I’m V (not from the film), 33, and living in the wilds of the UK, for now. I became very sick when I was 16 and essentially slept through my late teens and 20s so I’m playing catch up with a vengeance. I found the site through a friend and I’ve been a (silent, shadowy) member for a while but hadn’t been able to carve out the time to get through the sequences, until now.
I’m a final year Applied Maths and Computer Science student but I’m also really interested in cognitive science, rationality, philosophy and their applications. I detest being wrong and not understanding things I consider to be important. Rationality is the best tool I’ve found for helping me get out of my own way and for protecting myself from myself and others. Having lost so much time and having had a generally strange life, I care a lot about getting the most out of the time that I do have, having opinions that reflect reality as closely as possible and making the best quality decisions I can.
At the moment degree work, trying to move house and preparing for post graduation is swallowing my life but I do have a couple of side projects on the go; a couple of app ideas which may or may not be useful enough to make, gaining basic programming proficiency (for some value of all three words) and a portfolio of work; a blog about my later stage recovery and the process of becoming “well”, and a few other bits and pieces.
I have embarrassingly poor grammar and spelling which I’m trying to improve so I’m happy to be corrected if I start spewing word salad. I’m aware I’ve just invited replies consisting entirely of corrections to this comment and that’s o.k.
Hi there everyone, happy mid-winter festive period.
I’m V (not from the film), 33, and living in the wilds of the UK, for now. I became very sick when I was 16 and essentially slept through my late teens and 20s so I’m playing catch up with a vengeance. I found the site through a friend and I’ve been a (silent, shadowy) member for a while but hadn’t been able to carve out the time to get through the sequences, until now.
I’m a final year Applied Maths and Computer Science student but I’m also really interested in cognitive science, rationality, philosophy and their applications. I detest being wrong and not understanding things I consider to be important. Rationality is the best tool I’ve found for helping me get out of my own way and for protecting myself from myself and others. Having lost so much time and having had a generally strange life, I care a lot about getting the most out of the time that I do have, having opinions that reflect reality as closely as possible and making the best quality decisions I can.
At the moment degree work, trying to move house and preparing for post graduation is swallowing my life but I do have a couple of side projects on the go; a couple of app ideas which may or may not be useful enough to make, gaining basic programming proficiency (for some value of all three words) and a portfolio of work; a blog about my later stage recovery and the process of becoming “well”, and a few other bits and pieces.
I have embarrassingly poor grammar and spelling which I’m trying to improve so I’m happy to be corrected if I start spewing word salad. I’m aware I’ve just invited replies consisting entirely of corrections to this comment and that’s o.k.