I’ve been lurking for almost a year; I’m a 25 year old mechanical engineer living in Montreal.
Like several people I’ve seen on the welcome thread, I already had figured out the general outline of reductionism before I found LW. A friend had been telling me about it for a while, but I only really started paying attention when I found it independently while reading up on transhumanism (I was also a transhumanist before finding it here). Reading the sequences did a few things for me:
It filled in the gaps in my world-model (and fleshed out my transhumanist ideas much more thoroughly, among many other things)
It showed me that my way of seeing the world is actually the “correct” way (it yields the best results for achieving your goals).
Since then, I’ve helped a friend of mine organize the Montreal LessWrong meetups (which are on temporary hiatus due to several members being gone for the summer, but will start again in the fall) and have begun actively trying to improve myself in a variety of ways along with the group.
I can’t think of anything else in particular to say about myself...I like what I’ve seen of the community here and think I can learn a lot from everyone here and maybe contribute something worthwhile every now and again.
There’s a lot of great information on Less Wrong, but some of it is hard to find. Are there any efforts for organizing the information here in progress? If so, can anyone let me know where?
I’ve been lurking for almost a year; I’m a 25 year old mechanical engineer living in Montreal.
Like several people I’ve seen on the welcome thread, I already had figured out the general outline of reductionism before I found LW. A friend had been telling me about it for a while, but I only really started paying attention when I found it independently while reading up on transhumanism (I was also a transhumanist before finding it here). Reading the sequences did a few things for me:
It filled in the gaps in my world-model (and fleshed out my transhumanist ideas much more thoroughly, among many other things)
It showed me that my way of seeing the world is actually the “correct” way (it yields the best results for achieving your goals).
Since then, I’ve helped a friend of mine organize the Montreal LessWrong meetups (which are on temporary hiatus due to several members being gone for the summer, but will start again in the fall) and have begun actively trying to improve myself in a variety of ways along with the group.
I can’t think of anything else in particular to say about myself...I like what I’ve seen of the community here and think I can learn a lot from everyone here and maybe contribute something worthwhile every now and again.
There’s a lot of great information on Less Wrong, but some of it is hard to find. Are there any efforts for organizing the information here in progress? If so, can anyone let me know where?
Are you aware of the LessWrong wiki?
I was, but hadn’t delved too deeply into it until just now. There actually is a pretty good structure there that i’ll look at more closely.