Hi everybody. I’m a student who keeps changing fields. I have background in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and statistics. I grew up with a passion for knowledge, and independently rejected religion for naturalism at an early age, so I guess being a rationalist just came naturally. I’m a transhumanist; to be more precise, I think we’ll have smarter-than-human cyborgs/bioborgs/uploads by about 2070, and I’d like to become one. I’m also optimistic about nanotechnology and the continued advancement of computing machinery.
I found Overcomingbias months ago after coming across Robin Hanson’s talk about intelligent machines and the economy. The more I read of his work, the more it struck me that Robin is a very smart and admirable person, so I stuck around. Of course, this meant I read a lot of Eliezer’s stuff as well, which I found I wrestled with a lot more (not to say I disagree with him all the time, just that his perspective is often quite different).
I’m interested in most of the topics that get thrown around in this community, although I profess to feeling that I don’t have much to add in many cases. I’ll see if I can’t maintain a bit of activity, though. Nice meeting you all.
Hi everybody. I’m a student who keeps changing fields. I have background in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and statistics. I grew up with a passion for knowledge, and independently rejected religion for naturalism at an early age, so I guess being a rationalist just came naturally. I’m a transhumanist; to be more precise, I think we’ll have smarter-than-human cyborgs/bioborgs/uploads by about 2070, and I’d like to become one. I’m also optimistic about nanotechnology and the continued advancement of computing machinery.
I found Overcomingbias months ago after coming across Robin Hanson’s talk about intelligent machines and the economy. The more I read of his work, the more it struck me that Robin is a very smart and admirable person, so I stuck around. Of course, this meant I read a lot of Eliezer’s stuff as well, which I found I wrestled with a lot more (not to say I disagree with him all the time, just that his perspective is often quite different).
I’m interested in most of the topics that get thrown around in this community, although I profess to feeling that I don’t have much to add in many cases. I’ll see if I can’t maintain a bit of activity, though. Nice meeting you all.