Hello again, Less Wrong! I’m not entirely new — I’ve been lurking since at least 2010 and I had an account for a while, but since that I’ve let that one lie fallow for almost two years now I thought I’d start afresh.
I’m a college senior, studying cognitive psychology with a focus on irrationality / heuristics and biases. In a couple of months I’ll be starting my year-long senior thesis, which I’m currently looking for a specific topic for. I’m also a novice Python programmer and a dabbler in nootropics.
I’ll be trying to avoid spending too unproductive time on LW (“insight porn” really is a great description, and I’ve learned to be wary of being excessively cerebral), but here I am again.
Are you sleep deprived? This kind of attention lapse sounds like the calling card of a microsleep.