Not quire recently joined, but when I first joined, I read some, then got busy and didn’t participate after that.
Age: Not yet 30.
Former Occupation: Catastrophe Risk Modeling
New Occupation: Graduate Student, Public Policy, RAND Corporation.
Theist Status: Orthodox Jew, happy with the fact that there are those who correctly claim that I cannot prove that god exists, and very aware of the confirmation bias and lack of skepticism in most religious circles. It’s one reason I’m here, actually. And I’ll be glad to discuss it in the future, elsewhere.
I was initially guided here, about a year ago, by a link to The Best Textbooks on Every Subject . I was a bit busy working at the time, building biased mathematical models of reality. (Don’t worry, they weren’t MY biases, they were those of the senior people and those of the insurance industry. And they were normalized to historical experience, so as long as history is a good predictor of the future...) So I decided that I wanted to do something different, possibly something with more positive externalities, less short term thinking about how the world could be more profitable for my employer, and more long-term thinking about how it could be better for everyone.
Skip forward; I’m going to be going to graduate school for Policy Analysis at RAND, and they asked us to read Thinking Fast and Slow, by Kahneman—and I’m a big fan of his. While reading and thinking about it, I wanted to reference something I read on here, but couldn’t remember the name of the site. I ended up Googling my way to a link to HP:MOR, which I read in about a day, (yesterday, actually) and a link back here. So now LR is in my RSS reader, and I’m here to improve myself and my mind, and become a bit less wrong.
Hi all,
Not quire recently joined, but when I first joined, I read some, then got busy and didn’t participate after that.
Age: Not yet 30. Former Occupation: Catastrophe Risk Modeling New Occupation: Graduate Student, Public Policy, RAND Corporation.
Theist Status: Orthodox Jew, happy with the fact that there are those who correctly claim that I cannot prove that god exists, and very aware of the confirmation bias and lack of skepticism in most religious circles. It’s one reason I’m here, actually. And I’ll be glad to discuss it in the future, elsewhere.
I was initially guided here, about a year ago, by a link to The Best Textbooks on Every Subject . I was a bit busy working at the time, building biased mathematical models of reality. (Don’t worry, they weren’t MY biases, they were those of the senior people and those of the insurance industry. And they were normalized to historical experience, so as long as history is a good predictor of the future...) So I decided that I wanted to do something different, possibly something with more positive externalities, less short term thinking about how the world could be more profitable for my employer, and more long-term thinking about how it could be better for everyone.
Skip forward; I’m going to be going to graduate school for Policy Analysis at RAND, and they asked us to read Thinking Fast and Slow, by Kahneman—and I’m a big fan of his. While reading and thinking about it, I wanted to reference something I read on here, but couldn’t remember the name of the site. I ended up Googling my way to a link to HP:MOR, which I read in about a day, (yesterday, actually) and a link back here. So now LR is in my RSS reader, and I’m here to improve myself and my mind, and become a bit less wrong.