I’ve only just registered on the lesswrong site, but I’ve been lurking on here for a while. The main reason as to why I finally decided to sign up is that I’ve been going more frequently to the Toronto meetup sessions and have found that there’s tremendous value in thrusting myself into topics/discussions even when I’m not very well-read or knowledgeable on the topics before hand.
By merely listening in and pondering some questions I become more and more interested in the topic, catch some concepts by mere osmosis, and get interested to do further research on my own afterwards. So far that seems to work well and I’m certainly more knowledgeable than when I started.
So, following the same mentality, I thought that I should sign up and try to comment on some of the topics posted on here as a way to immerse myself further.
As for background: I’m a computer science grad with almost 10 years experience now. I like to read about psychology and to constantly learn new things. I’m interested in programming and intellectual discussions, artificial intelligence, winning at life …etc.
I hope that’s sufficient for an introductory comment! See you all around the site sometime.
Hello all!
I’ve only just registered on the lesswrong site, but I’ve been lurking on here for a while. The main reason as to why I finally decided to sign up is that I’ve been going more frequently to the Toronto meetup sessions and have found that there’s tremendous value in thrusting myself into topics/discussions even when I’m not very well-read or knowledgeable on the topics before hand.
By merely listening in and pondering some questions I become more and more interested in the topic, catch some concepts by mere osmosis, and get interested to do further research on my own afterwards. So far that seems to work well and I’m certainly more knowledgeable than when I started.
So, following the same mentality, I thought that I should sign up and try to comment on some of the topics posted on here as a way to immerse myself further.
As for background: I’m a computer science grad with almost 10 years experience now. I like to read about psychology and to constantly learn new things. I’m interested in programming and intellectual discussions, artificial intelligence, winning at life …etc.
I hope that’s sufficient for an introductory comment! See you all around the site sometime.