Alex_Miller

• Alex_Miller 16 Jun 2015 0:02 UTC

  7 points

  in reply to: Gondolinian’s comment on: Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015

  Thanks; I fixed it up now!

• Alex_Miller 15 Jun 2015 19:10 UTC

  21 points

  on: Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015

  My 4th grade teacher is teaching my class how to write poetry, and this is one of the poems that I wrote:

  Where am I?
  What is this place?
  Is it the darkness of night?
  I heard screams
  and then I was here
  Here, as in nowhere

  This place was not nothing
  it was less than that.
  I didn’t see nothing,
  for I had nothing to see with
  I didn’t hear nothing,
  for I had nothing to hear with

  I didn’t feel nothing,
  for I had nothing to feel with.
  I had slept before, but nothing like this

  Was Grandma here?
  Did she meet this fate too?
  I couldn’t know, for
  I had nothing to know with
  Even if she was here,
  she did not exist for me

  They said I would go to the land of the clouds
  they said nothing of this place
  Even the eternal flame would be better than this
  for there they had warmth
  and I had less than cold

  Why would
  anyone
  want this fate?
  The final sight,
  and then less than nothing

  I want to see the world

• Alex_Miller 3 Feb 2015 23:55 UTC

  2 points

  on: Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Thread Fe­bru­ary 2015

  I must respect you before your insults matter to me.

  Brandon_Nish Concerning Cyberbullying

• Alex_Miller 19 Jan 2015 1:05 UTC

  33 points

  on: Open thread, Jan. 19 - Jan. 25, 2015

  In my small fourth grade class of 20 students, we are learning how to write essays, and get to pick our own thesis statements. One kid, who had a younger sibling, picked the thesis statement: “Being an older sibling is hard.” Another kid did “Being the youngest child is hard.” Yet another did “Being the middle child is hard”, and someone else did “Being an only child is hard.” I find this as a rather humorous example of how people often make it look like they’re being oppressed.

  Does anyone know why people do this?

• Alex_Miller 1 Dec 2014 20:50 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: LizzardWizzard’s comment on: De­cem­ber 2014 Brag­ging Thread

  I will repeat part of the number out loud and memorize another part of the number. Then, when I recall it, I string the two together.

• Alex_Miller 1 Dec 2014 20:45 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: ArisKatsaris’s comment on: De­cem­ber 2014 Me­dia Thread

  Vsauce is a great youtube channel for kid’s education.

• Alex_Miller 1 Dec 2014 20:09 UTC

  12 points

  in reply to: Gondolinian’s comment on: De­cem­ber 2014 Brag­ging Thread

  My dad(I’m only 10) has had me do Dual N-Back programs for quite a while, since I was about 5.

• Alex_Miller 1 Dec 2014 20:08 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Gunnar_Zarncke’s comment on: De­cem­ber 2014 Brag­ging Thread

  What I did was start from 9 digits, and once I mastered that, I moved up one digit. Yes, I do recall the number still.

• Alex_Miller 1 Dec 2014 0:40 UTC

  25 points

  on: De­cem­ber 2014 Brag­ging Thread

  I memorized a 20-digit number in under a minute, then repeated it forward, backward, and forward again, and lastly repeated it while adding 1 to each digit.

• Alex_Miller 19 Nov 2014 20:21 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: ike’s comment on: Wel­come to Less Wrong! (6th thread, July 2013)

  Thanks! I’m the 3rd scenario in my case, and I joined that Brilliant website. It seems to be helpful so far. I do have to participate in classes where I know everything, so what I’ll end up doing most of the time is having my dad send me to school with special math worksheets that are at my level that I can do during math class.

  I already have some Martin Gardener books, and will be ordering more, as you are not the only person who recommended him.

• Alex_Miller 17 Nov 2014 20:33 UTC

  52 points

  on: Wel­come to Less Wrong! (6th thread, July 2013)

  Hello. My name is Alex. I am the 10-year-old son of LessWrong user James_Miller.

  I am very good at math for my age. I have read several of the books on rationality that my dad owns, and he convinced me to join this community. I like the idea of everyone in a community being honest because I often get into trouble at school for saying honest things that people don’t like and talking back to adults(which seems like it’s defined as not doing exactly what you’re told.)

  My favorite subject in school is math. At home, my interests are playing the video game Minecraft and doing origami, but I also like to read and play soccer.

  I have much to learn in the art of rationality, such as finding more ways to be in flow. My dad tells me that there are a lot of people on this site who were like me as children, and I would love advice on how to be less bored in school, controlling my emotions, and finding ways to improve myself in general.

  What links here?

  • James_Miller's comment on Ra­tion­al­ity Jokes Thread by Gunnar_Zarncke (18 Dec 2014 16:54 UTC; 60 points)
  • riceissa's comment on Open & Wel­come Thread—June 2020 by habryka (8 Jun 2020 9:42 UTC; 10 points)