Hello, I’m John Lindberg a 26 year old Computer Scientist from Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been reading this site for almost a year now. I’m a lurker by habit, preferring to listen rather than writing, but I really like this community, so I’ll see if I can fit myself in.
I originally found Less Wrong through Stumble Upon to the Ureshiku Naritai article, liked it enough to browse the front page and found that I liked almost all of the articles there. That set of a long bout of tab explosion as I followed links from those to other articles. Eventually started reading the sequences, but haven’t got through them all.
Much of the content here is stuff I’ve thought about on my own before, so I have not really taken on any groundbreaking new ideas, just a lot of refinement and applications for them. Many things have different names here of course, I called Map vs Territory for Story vs Life (forming a trinity along with Game for people’s intentions) for instance, but I’ve internalized most of the local terms by now.
Automating processes has always been of almost intrinsic value to me, for which I consider FAI the ultimate goal; automating the thought process itself. I considered “the Dark Arts” (by which I mean trying to influence people with anything but logic) an evil to the extent that I thought far less of the ancient Greek once I learned that they were the ones to develop the art of Rhetoric. I’ve relented on that in recent years, seeing it as a tool instead, which derives most of it’s value by how it’s used. Still carries a slight tinge of evil though. That also made me learn a lot about biases and I tend to get very defensive when I recognize one being used against me.
I suffer some from Akrasia, but mostly because of not having found any goals I really want to achieve. Three years ago I finally decided on self improvement as my new goal. The goal being to be able to end each day and come out of any situation feeling like I’d done a good job of it. (Discounting wireheading and averaging over time.) Still a long way to go, but I’m happy with the results so far: mostly getting rid of a few diseased memes which were holding me back, such as the “influencing people is evil” one mentioned above. Getting started with lifelogging will probably be the next step.
I wasn’t consciously inspired by it, but was aware of the terms. I’d still discount it as a coincidence though. (Or being a natural division to make.)
The terms kind of grew on me from using them separately in expressions. (“That’s just story” when discounting some evidence, “”Life is” when being stoical (Or “Life is beautiful” when being happy.) and “What’s his game?” and similar when reasoning about entities (people, organizations, myself). Then they just fitted as words to partition the world around.
Hello, I’m John Lindberg a 26 year old Computer Scientist from Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been reading this site for almost a year now. I’m a lurker by habit, preferring to listen rather than writing, but I really like this community, so I’ll see if I can fit myself in.
I originally found Less Wrong through Stumble Upon to the Ureshiku Naritai article, liked it enough to browse the front page and found that I liked almost all of the articles there. That set of a long bout of tab explosion as I followed links from those to other articles. Eventually started reading the sequences, but haven’t got through them all.
Much of the content here is stuff I’ve thought about on my own before, so I have not really taken on any groundbreaking new ideas, just a lot of refinement and applications for them. Many things have different names here of course, I called Map vs Territory for Story vs Life (forming a trinity along with Game for people’s intentions) for instance, but I’ve internalized most of the local terms by now.
Automating processes has always been of almost intrinsic value to me, for which I consider FAI the ultimate goal; automating the thought process itself. I considered “the Dark Arts” (by which I mean trying to influence people with anything but logic) an evil to the extent that I thought far less of the ancient Greek once I learned that they were the ones to develop the art of Rhetoric. I’ve relented on that in recent years, seeing it as a tool instead, which derives most of it’s value by how it’s used. Still carries a slight tinge of evil though. That also made me learn a lot about biases and I tend to get very defensive when I recognize one being used against me.
I suffer some from Akrasia, but mostly because of not having found any goals I really want to achieve. Three years ago I finally decided on self improvement as my new goal. The goal being to be able to end each day and come out of any situation feeling like I’d done a good job of it. (Discounting wireheading and averaging over time.) Still a long way to go, but I’m happy with the results so far: mostly getting rid of a few diseased memes which were holding me back, such as the “influencing people is evil” one mentioned above. Getting started with lifelogging will probably be the next step.
Hope to get involved.
Welcome to LessWrong!
Is it a coincidence if this reminds me of Gamist, Narrativist and Simulationist roleplaying?
Thanks.
I wasn’t consciously inspired by it, but was aware of the terms. I’d still discount it as a coincidence though. (Or being a natural division to make.)
The terms kind of grew on me from using them separately in expressions. (“That’s just story” when discounting some evidence, “”Life is” when being stoical (Or “Life is beautiful” when being happy.) and “What’s his game?” and similar when reasoning about entities (people, organizations, myself). Then they just fitted as words to partition the world around.