Academia: I’m finishing the formatting boring stuff related to my book, which, despite being finished 4 years ago, has been sitting idly on my computer up till now so I could use it as a masters thesis (oh academia, why are you so sluggish)
Writing: I’m trying to come up with a compromise between writing for Lesswrong, which is really motivating because I know people will read it, and writing academic stuff or non-fiction stuff that only has longer term impact. Put another way, I need to understand how to write in a way that is both upvotable here, and academically acceptable (citing the sequences for instance would be not advisable).
Basically I’m thorn between wanting to write to a previously well trained public of smart people who won’t fail every paragraph, you, and writing stuff that actually makes people learn cool stuff in a nice way, which would require dumber people at my current stage. So far I have mostly failed in writing for LW (at least under this nickname anyway). I need a place where I’m as motivativated to write as I’m here, but where I can learn to take the steps necessary to write as well as writing here requires, and calling Karma Money did not help with that. I take that post back :)
Love: Love life is going interestingly, there is an ample set of choices to make about it, and in particular a binary star was forged in my heart which is making it all the good kind of complicated.
¿Where?: Going to Berkeley has become less likely. Ticket is bought, but I may cancel it in virtue of life in Brazil having become really good recently, and postponing the urgency.
Leadership: After (ten years and) a less than satisfying Transhumanist Manifestation in São Paulo, I’ve decided that, strategically, for me, it is time to move on from wearing the Tranhumanist flag. In spoken portuguese, differently from written English, I speak very well, and people do pay a lot of attention to what I clam and where I point. I must choose carefully what will be my next label. Some contenders would be “self-experimentation”, “effective altruism”, “imortalism”, “polyamory”, “quantified self”, “life-span increase” or, finally “increasing cooperation”. I will consult some leaders of institutions around, and am eager to hear suggestions.
I’ve excluded some possibilities out of knowledge of both the Brazilian public, and my personality, such as X-risk, Utilitarianism, FAI, singularitarianism, Lesswrong style rationality. Also I intend to return to public defense of transhumanism in a few years, if it gets more attention here.
Academia: I’m finishing the formatting boring stuff related to my book, which, despite being finished 4 years ago, has been sitting idly on my computer up till now so I could use it as a masters thesis (oh academia, why are you so sluggish)
Writing: I’m trying to come up with a compromise between writing for Lesswrong, which is really motivating because I know people will read it, and writing academic stuff or non-fiction stuff that only has longer term impact. Put another way, I need to understand how to write in a way that is both upvotable here, and academically acceptable (citing the sequences for instance would be not advisable). Basically I’m thorn between wanting to write to a previously well trained public of smart people who won’t fail every paragraph, you, and writing stuff that actually makes people learn cool stuff in a nice way, which would require dumber people at my current stage. So far I have mostly failed in writing for LW (at least under this nickname anyway). I need a place where I’m as motivativated to write as I’m here, but where I can learn to take the steps necessary to write as well as writing here requires, and calling Karma Money did not help with that. I take that post back :)
Love: Love life is going interestingly, there is an ample set of choices to make about it, and in particular a binary star was forged in my heart which is making it all the good kind of complicated.
¿Where?: Going to Berkeley has become less likely. Ticket is bought, but I may cancel it in virtue of life in Brazil having become really good recently, and postponing the urgency.
Leadership: After (ten years and) a less than satisfying Transhumanist Manifestation in São Paulo, I’ve decided that, strategically, for me, it is time to move on from wearing the Tranhumanist flag. In spoken portuguese, differently from written English, I speak very well, and people do pay a lot of attention to what I clam and where I point. I must choose carefully what will be my next label. Some contenders would be “self-experimentation”, “effective altruism”, “imortalism”, “polyamory”, “quantified self”, “life-span increase” or, finally “increasing cooperation”. I will consult some leaders of institutions around, and am eager to hear suggestions. I’ve excluded some possibilities out of knowledge of both the Brazilian public, and my personality, such as X-risk, Utilitarianism, FAI, singularitarianism, Lesswrong style rationality. Also I intend to return to public defense of transhumanism in a few years, if it gets more attention here.