My name is, well, my username. I’m sixteen, currently in my final year of high school, male, and living in Inverness, Scotland.
I first became interested in Lesswrong and it’s philosophy after reading some very good fiction here, although many of the references took me time to understand. After sporadically reading the occasional article for a few months, and doing some serious thinking about where I want to be in a few years, I decided to register to better network a few weeks ago. I haven’t made notable progress on the sequences yet, although I aim to have finished the ones on the site this year, and hopefully start attending meet-ups if any are near to my university once I’ve started my course, if my family can afford university and are okay with it, of course. My main interest in the site is it’s possibilities for altruism, as we’re mostly aspiring consequentialists, we’re less likely to be able to justify passive acceptance of the norms like most people I meet seem to. I’ve met, and know, a fair few good people, but they are mostly what I once saw described here as ‘barbarians’, albeit extremely noble ones. They do their best for everyone around them, and try to help others, but in a disorganized way I think could be improved with the right coordination, and planning.
For now I hope to get a few questions answered, comment occasionally, and keep quiet until I really grasp the concepts most of the discussion on this site is based on. If there’s any other rationalists or aspiring rationalists in the Scottish university system, it would be good to know where they are as well, of course.
I’m thinking Stirling university might suit me the best for now, it’s outside town, has a good economics department, and is closest to where I live after Aberdeen. Still, I’m not set, did Edinburgh have a decent Economics faculty when you were there?
No idea, I was in philosophy. (...That, and I stopped showing up to classes partway through the semester. Turns out when nobody notices if I go to a thing or not, I rarely go to the thing.)
In Edinburgh, I was taking three classes: philosophy of language (we discussed Superman a lot), moral and political philosophy (I most clearly remember covering Rawls), and philosophy of mind (philosophers of mind love pain). I took one course my entire academic career that was entirely about something Greek (a graduate course on the Republic). We read it in English.
And lo, she did answer the question concisely and effectively! I doubt Bayesianism is available in any of the universities I might be going to though, so I think Economics, minoring in Sociology and Psychology would suit me best.
Greetings Lesswrong
My name is, well, my username. I’m sixteen, currently in my final year of high school, male, and living in Inverness, Scotland.
I first became interested in Lesswrong and it’s philosophy after reading some very good fiction here, although many of the references took me time to understand. After sporadically reading the occasional article for a few months, and doing some serious thinking about where I want to be in a few years, I decided to register to better network a few weeks ago. I haven’t made notable progress on the sequences yet, although I aim to have finished the ones on the site this year, and hopefully start attending meet-ups if any are near to my university once I’ve started my course, if my family can afford university and are okay with it, of course. My main interest in the site is it’s possibilities for altruism, as we’re mostly aspiring consequentialists, we’re less likely to be able to justify passive acceptance of the norms like most people I meet seem to. I’ve met, and know, a fair few good people, but they are mostly what I once saw described here as ‘barbarians’, albeit extremely noble ones. They do their best for everyone around them, and try to help others, but in a disorganized way I think could be improved with the right coordination, and planning.
For now I hope to get a few questions answered, comment occasionally, and keep quiet until I really grasp the concepts most of the discussion on this site is based on. If there’s any other rationalists or aspiring rationalists in the Scottish university system, it would be good to know where they are as well, of course.
I’m currently in neither Scotland nor its university system, but I spent a semester at the University of Edinburgh! Yay! Welcome.
I’m thinking Stirling university might suit me the best for now, it’s outside town, has a good economics department, and is closest to where I live after Aberdeen. Still, I’m not set, did Edinburgh have a decent Economics faculty when you were there?
No idea, I was in philosophy. (...That, and I stopped showing up to classes partway through the semester. Turns out when nobody notices if I go to a thing or not, I rarely go to the thing.)
But how can you even be sure you really exist?! Maybe you’re just a figment of someone else’s imagination?
I’ve always wondered, what do people do in the philosophy course? Is it all ancient greek poetry, or is that image outdated?
In Edinburgh, I was taking three classes: philosophy of language (we discussed Superman a lot), moral and political philosophy (I most clearly remember covering Rawls), and philosophy of mind (philosophers of mind love pain). I took one course my entire academic career that was entirely about something Greek (a graduate course on the Republic). We read it in English.
And lo, she did answer the question concisely and effectively! I doubt Bayesianism is available in any of the universities I might be going to though, so I think Economics, minoring in Sociology and Psychology would suit me best.
Who?
(I am a she.)
Ah, edited. Perhaps I shouldn’t have made the assumption.