Saluton! I’m an ex-mormon athiest, a postgenderist, a conlanging dabbler, and a chronic three-day monk.
Looking at the above posts (and a bunch of other places on the net), I think ex-mormons seem to be more common than I thought they would be. Weird.
I’m a first-year college student studying only core/LCD classes so far because every major’s terrible and choosing is scary. Also, the college system is madness. I’ve read lots of posts on the subject of higher education on LessWrong already, and my experience with college seems to be pretty common.
I discovered LessWrong a few months ago via a link on a self-help blog, and quickly fell in love with it. The sequences pretty much completely matched up with what I had come up with on my own, and before reading LW I had never encountered anyone other than myself who regularly tabooed words and rejected the “death gives meaning to life” argument et cetera. It was nice to find out that I’m not the only sane person in the world. Of course, the less happy side of the story is that now I’m not the sanest person in my universe anymore. I’m not sure what I think about that. (Yes, having access to people that are smarter than me will probably leave me better off than before, but it’s hard to turn off the “I wanna be the very best like no one ever was” desire.) Yet again, my experience seems to be pretty common.
Huh, I’ve never walked into a room of people and had nothing out of the ordinary to say. Being redundant is a new experience for me. I guess my secret ambition to start a movement of rationalists is redundant now too, huh? Drat! I should have come up with a plan B! :)
What will you do now that you can’t form a movement of rationalists? Take over world? Become a superhero? Invent the best recipe for cookies? MAINTAIN AND INCREASE DIVERSITY?
For example, I am going to post a recipe for a bacon trilobite and my experiences and thoughts about paperclipping among humans. Any interesting things you be thinkin’ of postin’? ^^
What will I do? I don’t really know. Luminosity skills seem like an important requisite for answering that question, but while the luminosity sequence was nice, I feel like it didn’t go far enough. Maybe that would be something worth postin’ about.
Saluton! I’m an ex-mormon athiest, a postgenderist, a conlanging dabbler, and a chronic three-day monk.
Looking at the above posts (and a bunch of other places on the net), I think ex-mormons seem to be more common than I thought they would be. Weird.
I’m a first-year college student studying only core/LCD classes so far because every major’s terrible and choosing is scary. Also, the college system is madness. I’ve read lots of posts on the subject of higher education on LessWrong already, and my experience with college seems to be pretty common.
I discovered LessWrong a few months ago via a link on a self-help blog, and quickly fell in love with it. The sequences pretty much completely matched up with what I had come up with on my own, and before reading LW I had never encountered anyone other than myself who regularly tabooed words and rejected the “death gives meaning to life” argument et cetera. It was nice to find out that I’m not the only sane person in the world. Of course, the less happy side of the story is that now I’m not the sanest person in my universe anymore. I’m not sure what I think about that. (Yes, having access to people that are smarter than me will probably leave me better off than before, but it’s hard to turn off the “I wanna be the very best like no one ever was” desire.) Yet again, my experience seems to be pretty common.
Huh, I’ve never walked into a room of people and had nothing out of the ordinary to say. Being redundant is a new experience for me. I guess my secret ambition to start a movement of rationalists is redundant now too, huh? Drat! I should have come up with a plan B! :)
What will you do now that you can’t form a movement of rationalists? Take over world? Become a superhero? Invent the best recipe for cookies? MAINTAIN AND INCREASE DIVERSITY?
For example, I am going to post a recipe for a bacon trilobite and my experiences and thoughts about paperclipping among humans. Any interesting things you be thinkin’ of postin’? ^^
What will I do? I don’t really know. Luminosity skills seem like an important requisite for answering that question, but while the luminosity sequence was nice, I feel like it didn’t go far enough. Maybe that would be something worth postin’ about.