I’m waning saying anything definitive because you’ve earned enough status on the site that I might succumb to the Halo Effect.
But I’ll say this: I think of you as the exemplar for an “Everyman rationalist”—what the X-Rationality approach to life can do for the “common” Westernly schmoe, which is to say, a helluva lot. You have succeeded both epistemically and instrumentally through your deconversion and your self-help; these are issues that are “closer to home” than the demands set by FAI research, and thus invite a larger audience into the fold. In other words, you cover a lot of ground and you do it well.
I hope to emulate your comprehensiveness, your happiness (and, of course, your Modafinil habits :P) while building the Vancouver Rationalists community in the coming months.
I’m waning saying anything definitive because you’ve earned enough status on the site that I might succumb to the Halo Effect.
But I’ll say this: I think of you as the exemplar for an “Everyman rationalist”—what the X-Rationality approach to life can do for the “common” Westernly schmoe, which is to say, a helluva lot. You have succeeded both epistemically and instrumentally through your deconversion and your self-help; these are issues that are “closer to home” than the demands set by FAI research, and thus invite a larger audience into the fold. In other words, you cover a lot of ground and you do it well.
I hope to emulate your comprehensiveness, your happiness (and, of course, your Modafinil habits :P) while building the Vancouver Rationalists community in the coming months.
So far as I can tell, lukeprog wasn’t inviting feedback here, but via the link provided.
Mm, that’s right. Worth retracting? I don’t want to seem unscrupulous.
Not worth retracting.