Hi everyone! I’ve been lurking around here for a few years, but now I want to be more active in the great discussions that often occur on this site. I discovered Less Wrong about 4 years ago, but the Methods of Rationality fanfic brought me here as a more attentive reader. I’ve read some of the sequences, and found them generally to use clear reasoning to make great points. If nothing else, reading them has definitely made me think very carefully about the way nature operates and how we perceive it.
In fact, this site was my first exposure to cognitive biases, and since then I’ve had the chance to study them further in college and read about them independently. This has been tremendously useful for me to understand why I and others I know behave the way we do.
I recently graduated college with a major in computer science and a decent exposure to math, having done some small independent research projects in machine learning. I’ll soon begin a job as a software engineer at a late-stage startup that brings machine learning to the field of education.
I find that my greatest weakness with online communities is my tendency to return to lurking, even if I find the content very engaging. I hope to avoid that problem here, and at least continue participating in the comment threads.
Hi everyone! I’ve been lurking around here for a few years, but now I want to be more active in the great discussions that often occur on this site. I discovered Less Wrong about 4 years ago, but the Methods of Rationality fanfic brought me here as a more attentive reader. I’ve read some of the sequences, and found them generally to use clear reasoning to make great points. If nothing else, reading them has definitely made me think very carefully about the way nature operates and how we perceive it.
In fact, this site was my first exposure to cognitive biases, and since then I’ve had the chance to study them further in college and read about them independently. This has been tremendously useful for me to understand why I and others I know behave the way we do.
I recently graduated college with a major in computer science and a decent exposure to math, having done some small independent research projects in machine learning. I’ll soon begin a job as a software engineer at a late-stage startup that brings machine learning to the field of education.
I find that my greatest weakness with online communities is my tendency to return to lurking, even if I find the content very engaging. I hope to avoid that problem here, and at least continue participating in the comment threads.