Hello! I’ve been a reader of Less Wrong for several months, although I never bothered to actually create an account until now. I originally discovered LW from a link through some site called “The Mentat Wiki.” I consider myself an atheist and a skeptic. I’m entering my senior year of high school, and I plan on majoring in Physics at the best college I can get into!
Actually, I had come across EY’s writings a few months earlier while trying to find out who this “Bayes” was that I had seen mentioned a couple different blogs I read. That was a pleasant connection for me.
I had an interesting time testing Tversky and Kahneman’s Anchoring Bias for my end of the year project in my 11th grade Statistics class. On the plus side, we found a strong anchoring effect. On the minus side, it was a group project, and my groupmates were...not exactly rationalists. I had to kind of tiptoe around what LW actually was.
Since I’ve started reading Less Wrong, I think the best sign of my improvement as a rationalist is that a number of concepts here that I used to find penetrating or insightful now seem obvious or trivial. On the other hand, I think a red flag is that I haven’t really made any major revisions to my beliefs or worldview other than those coming directly from LW.
I look forward to learning as much as I can from Less Wrong, and perhaps commenting as well!
Hello! I’ve been a reader of Less Wrong for several months, although I never bothered to actually create an account until now. I originally discovered LW from a link through some site called “The Mentat Wiki.” I consider myself an atheist and a skeptic. I’m entering my senior year of high school, and I plan on majoring in Physics at the best college I can get into!
Actually, I had come across EY’s writings a few months earlier while trying to find out who this “Bayes” was that I had seen mentioned a couple different blogs I read. That was a pleasant connection for me.
I had an interesting time testing Tversky and Kahneman’s Anchoring Bias for my end of the year project in my 11th grade Statistics class. On the plus side, we found a strong anchoring effect. On the minus side, it was a group project, and my groupmates were...not exactly rationalists. I had to kind of tiptoe around what LW actually was.
Since I’ve started reading Less Wrong, I think the best sign of my improvement as a rationalist is that a number of concepts here that I used to find penetrating or insightful now seem obvious or trivial. On the other hand, I think a red flag is that I haven’t really made any major revisions to my beliefs or worldview other than those coming directly from LW.
I look forward to learning as much as I can from Less Wrong, and perhaps commenting as well!
Particle Man, Particle Man, does whatever a particle can! What’s he like? It’s not important. Particle Man!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I’m sorry, I’m not.
Welcome! Would you happen to be the same Particleman from LDF/Stonehenge?
I’m sorry, I’m not.
Ah, okay. Welcome nevertheless. :)