I’m 26 (at the time of writing), male, and an IT professional. I have three (soon to be four) children, three (but not four) of which have a different dad.
My immediate links here were through the Singularity Institute and Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which drove me here when I realized the connection (I came to those things entirely separately!). When I came across this site, I had read through the Wikipedia list of biases several times over the course of years, come to many conscious conclusions about the fragility of my own cognition, and had innumerable arguments with friends and family that changed minds, but I never really considered that there would be a large community of people that got together on those grounds.
I’m going to do the short version of my origin story here, since writing it all out seems both daunting and pretentious. I was raised rich and lucky by an entrepreneur/university professor/doctor father and a mother who always had to be learning something or go crazy (she did some of both). I dropped out of a physics major in college and got my degree in gunsmithing instead, but only after I worked a few years. Along the way, I’ve politically and morally moved around, but I’m worried that the settling of my moral and political beliefs is a symptom of my brain settling rather than because of all of my rationalizations.
There are a few reasons that I haven’t commented on here yet (mostly because I despise any sort of hard work), and this is an attempt to break some of those inhibitions and maybe even get to know some people well enough (i.e. at all) to actively desire discourse.
Ok, David Fun Facts time:
I know enough Norwegian, Chinese, Latin, Lojban, and Spanish to do...something useful maybe?
I almost never think of what I’m saying before I say it (as in black-box), and I let it continue because it works.
Corollary: I curse a lot when I’m comfortable with people.
Corollary: My voice is low and loud, so it carries quite far.
I play a lot of video games, board games, and thought experiment games.
Hello! I’m David.
I’m 26 (at the time of writing), male, and an IT professional. I have three (soon to be four) children, three (but not four) of which have a different dad.
My immediate links here were through the Singularity Institute and Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which drove me here when I realized the connection (I came to those things entirely separately!). When I came across this site, I had read through the Wikipedia list of biases several times over the course of years, come to many conscious conclusions about the fragility of my own cognition, and had innumerable arguments with friends and family that changed minds, but I never really considered that there would be a large community of people that got together on those grounds.
I’m going to do the short version of my origin story here, since writing it all out seems both daunting and pretentious. I was raised rich and lucky by an entrepreneur/university professor/doctor father and a mother who always had to be learning something or go crazy (she did some of both). I dropped out of a physics major in college and got my degree in gunsmithing instead, but only after I worked a few years. Along the way, I’ve politically and morally moved around, but I’m worried that the settling of my moral and political beliefs is a symptom of my brain settling rather than because of all of my rationalizations.
There are a few reasons that I haven’t commented on here yet (mostly because I despise any sort of hard work), and this is an attempt to break some of those inhibitions and maybe even get to know some people well enough (i.e. at all) to actively desire discourse.
Ok, David Fun Facts time:
I know enough Norwegian, Chinese, Latin, Lojban, and Spanish to do...something useful maybe?
I almost never think of what I’m saying before I say it (as in black-box), and I let it continue because it works.
Corollary: I curse a lot when I’m comfortable with people.
Corollary: My voice is low and loud, so it carries quite far.
I play a lot of video games, board games, and thought experiment games.