Hi! I want to use the Rationality Methods to improve my understanding of myself and how to improve. I guess you could say I had a strange way of “waking up” to Rationality. Many say they looked to rationality after realizing their religion was …. yeah. Well… That was a bit strange for me. when my parents married, “I was born about a year later”, they were both from christian families and just went with it. When they realized that Christianity didn’t match with the way things actually worked, the explained it all out to me. I was 5. Naturally that got my 5 year old mind thinking, “Wait.… Daddy was WRONG???”. It took him about 2 hours to explain this strange new concept to me. That was step 1, on my path to rationality. I… am a 13 year old, confident, curious young male who decided that he wanted to skip the 30 years of bad habits and jump to the rational part. For my security, call me “Ambition”.
Welcome :)
We need more awesome young people around here, beware of too much rationality overload though the sequences have been known to cause very large amounts of meta-cognition and symptoms similar to brain freeze.
That sounds like a good experience to have as young as possible, finding out that your world view is susceptible to being wrong and needing to be changed. The longer you wait for the first one of those, the harder it is to avoid just closing your eyes to it. Now, though, you’re more mentally prepared if it ever happens again.
It sure was. As you can guess I’m not your average teen. Hopefully this time advantage will give me a head start on Rationality, and allow me to go far with it.
Hi! I want to use the Rationality Methods to improve my understanding of myself and how to improve. I guess you could say I had a strange way of “waking up” to Rationality. Many say they looked to rationality after realizing their religion was …. yeah. Well… That was a bit strange for me. when my parents married, “I was born about a year later”, they were both from christian families and just went with it. When they realized that Christianity didn’t match with the way things actually worked, the explained it all out to me. I was 5. Naturally that got my 5 year old mind thinking, “Wait.… Daddy was WRONG???”. It took him about 2 hours to explain this strange new concept to me. That was step 1, on my path to rationality. I… am a 13 year old, confident, curious young male who decided that he wanted to skip the 30 years of bad habits and jump to the rational part. For my security, call me “Ambition”.
Welcome :) We need more awesome young people around here, beware of too much rationality overload though the sequences have been known to cause very large amounts of meta-cognition and symptoms similar to brain freeze.
Hiya! Welcome to Less Wrong.
That sounds like a good experience to have as young as possible, finding out that your world view is susceptible to being wrong and needing to be changed. The longer you wait for the first one of those, the harder it is to avoid just closing your eyes to it. Now, though, you’re more mentally prepared if it ever happens again.
It sure was. As you can guess I’m not your average teen. Hopefully this time advantage will give me a head start on Rationality, and allow me to go far with it.