Hi everyone, I’ve been following this site for a long time and I really feel like it’s had a huge impact on me, if not just because I’ve discovered a huge community of people who seem to have the answers to the questions I’ve always been asking myself (or at least the cognitive apparatus for reaching them!)
Me
I’m a 20 year old male from the UK and have been working for two years in a private hospital with the aged, terminally ill and cancer sufferers. The job requires me to work 12-14 hours a day with little human contact other than with patients and nursing staff which gives me an enormous amount of time to just think about things and debate things through rationally by myself. I’m almost obsessive in my fascination over the mechanics of thought and why I think the way I think, or like the things I like, and am constantly asking myself whether I’m decieving myself or whether I really believe what I think I believe. Finding so many people in this community who have constructed various models for analysing that way of thinking and expressed them so eloquently has given me such confidence and really renewed my enthusiasm for “staying in the desert” of thought that can sometimes turn into a very scary place.
Where’d I find this place?
You know I can not remember at all where I found LessWrong, I can only guess that an article I read somewhere on the internet mentioned in briefly and that in the following moment the idea that my curiosity will always reward me proved itself true.
If I could add anything else it would be to say that I’m keen to learn from everyone here and hopefully one day meet your standards for living up to the virtues that I hold dear.
Anyway I hope my introduction didn’t make me sound too weird or anything...
Hi everyone, I’ve been following this site for a long time and I really feel like it’s had a huge impact on me, if not just because I’ve discovered a huge community of people who seem to have the answers to the questions I’ve always been asking myself (or at least the cognitive apparatus for reaching them!)
Me
I’m a 20 year old male from the UK and have been working for two years in a private hospital with the aged, terminally ill and cancer sufferers. The job requires me to work 12-14 hours a day with little human contact other than with patients and nursing staff which gives me an enormous amount of time to just think about things and debate things through rationally by myself. I’m almost obsessive in my fascination over the mechanics of thought and why I think the way I think, or like the things I like, and am constantly asking myself whether I’m decieving myself or whether I really believe what I think I believe. Finding so many people in this community who have constructed various models for analysing that way of thinking and expressed them so eloquently has given me such confidence and really renewed my enthusiasm for “staying in the desert” of thought that can sometimes turn into a very scary place.
Where’d I find this place?
You know I can not remember at all where I found LessWrong, I can only guess that an article I read somewhere on the internet mentioned in briefly and that in the following moment the idea that my curiosity will always reward me proved itself true.
If I could add anything else it would be to say that I’m keen to learn from everyone here and hopefully one day meet your standards for living up to the virtues that I hold dear.
Anyway I hope my introduction didn’t make me sound too weird or anything...