I don’t have particularly strong opinions and think you should do whatever you like with your name, but just as a datapoint I (1) didn’t think “the gears to ascension” was either so cool a name as to demand respect or so stupid a name as to preclude it, and (2) don’t think the “often wrong” in your name will make much difference to how I read your comments.
I don’t think it ever occurred to me to think that calling yourself “the gears to ascension” amounted to claiming to be a key part of some transhumanist project or anything like that. The impression it gave me was “transhumanist picking a name that sounds cool to them”.
The “often wrong” provokes the following thoughts: (1) this person is aware of often being wrong, which is more than most people are, so maybe take them more seriously? (2) this person is, by their own account, often wrong, so maybe take them less seriously? (3) this person is maybe doing a sort of defensive self-deprecatory fishing-for-compliments thing, so maybe take them less seriously? but all of these are pretty weak effects, and I think 2+3 more or less exactly cancel out 1.
“Lauren (often wrong)” is probably about equally memorable to “the gears to ascension”. if your goal is to have all your comments stand on their own, then aside from the one-off effect of reducing the association between things said by “Lauren” and things said by “gears” I don’t think the change will do much one way or the other. “Lauren” on its own is probably less memorable and your comments might be treated as more independent of one another if you just called yourself that. (But there appear already to be two users called just Lauren, so something slightly more specific might be better.)
I don’t have particularly strong opinions and think you should do whatever you like with your name, but just as a datapoint I (1) didn’t think “the gears to ascension” was either so cool a name as to demand respect or so stupid a name as to preclude it, and (2) don’t think the “often wrong” in your name will make much difference to how I read your comments.
I don’t think it ever occurred to me to think that calling yourself “the gears to ascension” amounted to claiming to be a key part of some transhumanist project or anything like that. The impression it gave me was “transhumanist picking a name that sounds cool to them”.
The “often wrong” provokes the following thoughts: (1) this person is aware of often being wrong, which is more than most people are, so maybe take them more seriously? (2) this person is, by their own account, often wrong, so maybe take them less seriously? (3) this person is maybe doing a sort of defensive self-deprecatory fishing-for-compliments thing, so maybe take them less seriously? but all of these are pretty weak effects, and I think 2+3 more or less exactly cancel out 1.
“Lauren (often wrong)” is probably about equally memorable to “the gears to ascension”. if your goal is to have all your comments stand on their own, then aside from the one-off effect of reducing the association between things said by “Lauren” and things said by “gears” I don’t think the change will do much one way or the other. “Lauren” on its own is probably less memorable and your comments might be treated as more independent of one another if you just called yourself that. (But there appear already to be two users called just Lauren, so something slightly more specific might be better.)