Hey guys, I’m a person who on this site goes by the name sjmp! I found lesswrong about a year ago (I actually don’t remember how I found it, I read for a bit back then but I started seriously reading thourgh the sequences few months ago) and I can honestly say this is the single best website I’ve ever found.Rather than make a long post on why lesswrong and rationality is awesome, I’d like to offer one small anecdote on what lesswrong has done for me:
When I first came to the site, I already had understanding of “if tree falls in a forest...” dispute and the question “But did it really make a sound?” did not linger in my mind and there was nothing mysterious or unclear to me about the whole affair. Yet I could most definitely remember a time long ago when I was extremely puzzled by it. I thought to myself, how silly that I was ever puzzled by something like that. What did puzzle me was free will. The question seemed Very Mysterious And Deep to me.
Can you guess what I’m thinking now? How silly that was I ever puzzled by the question “Do we have free will?”… Reducing free will surely is not as easy as reducing dispute about falling trees, but it does seem pretty obvious in hindsight ;)
Hey guys, I’m a person who on this site goes by the name sjmp! I found lesswrong about a year ago (I actually don’t remember how I found it, I read for a bit back then but I started seriously reading thourgh the sequences few months ago) and I can honestly say this is the single best website I’ve ever found.Rather than make a long post on why lesswrong and rationality is awesome, I’d like to offer one small anecdote on what lesswrong has done for me:
When I first came to the site, I already had understanding of “if tree falls in a forest...” dispute and the question “But did it really make a sound?” did not linger in my mind and there was nothing mysterious or unclear to me about the whole affair. Yet I could most definitely remember a time long ago when I was extremely puzzled by it. I thought to myself, how silly that I was ever puzzled by something like that. What did puzzle me was free will. The question seemed Very Mysterious And Deep to me.
Can you guess what I’m thinking now? How silly that was I ever puzzled by the question “Do we have free will?”… Reducing free will surely is not as easy as reducing dispute about falling trees, but it does seem pretty obvious in hindsight ;)