I guess I’ll introduce myself? Ordinary story, came from HPMOR, blah blah blah. I was active on 1.0 for awhile when I was in college, but changed usernames when I decided I didn’t want my real name to be googleable. I doubt anyone really remembers it anyway. Quit going there when 1.0 became not so much of a thing anymore. Hung out with some of the people on rationalist Tumblr for awhile before that stopped being so much of a thing too. If you recognize the name, it’s probably from there. Got on Twitter recently, but that’s more about college football than it is the rationalist community. Was vaguely aware of the LW 2.0 effort and poked around a little when it was launched, but never stuck. I think I saw something about the books on Twitter and thought that was cool. Came back this week and was surprised at how active it was. So if this is to say anything it’s to say good job to the team on growing the site back up.
On a side note, I used to live in rural Louisiana, which pretty obviously didn’t have a rationalist community (Though I did meet a guy who lived a couple hours away once) and now I’m in Richmond, VA. Most surveys I’ve seen still show me as the only one here, (There’s obviously the DC group, but nothing my way.) but if any of you are ever around after this whole “global pandemic” thing is over, hit me up.
I guess I’ll introduce myself? Ordinary story, came from HPMOR, blah blah blah. I was active on 1.0 for awhile when I was in college, but changed usernames when I decided I didn’t want my real name to be googleable. I doubt anyone really remembers it anyway. Quit going there when 1.0 became not so much of a thing anymore. Hung out with some of the people on rationalist Tumblr for awhile before that stopped being so much of a thing too. If you recognize the name, it’s probably from there. Got on Twitter recently, but that’s more about college football than it is the rationalist community. Was vaguely aware of the LW 2.0 effort and poked around a little when it was launched, but never stuck. I think I saw something about the books on Twitter and thought that was cool. Came back this week and was surprised at how active it was. So if this is to say anything it’s to say good job to the team on growing the site back up.
On a side note, I used to live in rural Louisiana, which pretty obviously didn’t have a rationalist community (Though I did meet a guy who lived a couple hours away once) and now I’m in Richmond, VA. Most surveys I’ve seen still show me as the only one here, (There’s obviously the DC group, but nothing my way.) but if any of you are ever around after this whole “global pandemic” thing is over, hit me up.
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