pfft college is just about liberal indoctrination anyway.....
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I think its a good thing to remember that making your map match your territory (which requires rationality) benefits you no matter what your interests are. Oh and i now the feeling about talking over someones head. I attend a skeptics meeting and i seem to do that there to. I wish there where a less wrong meetup where i live so that i can talk about things like bayes theorem or and bias and have people go oh yea i know what that is.
I had a boss who did that to an entire lab of computers just after a coworker finished reimaging them.
Actually the learning styles thing is basically a bunch of BS. If you want i can find some articles about it.
edit: here is a good one http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/daniel-willingham/-my-guest-today-is.html
There is also the fact that i’m trying to start an Military Atheist,skeptics and Humanist group.
I think i wasn’t clear. I knew people in ames that would be interested. I barely know anyone here that might be.
Yea but i new a lot more people in ames. I know people who would probably be interested. Though i have been thinking of holding a lesswrong meetup.
damn’t i was in ames for 6 years and just moved last September. Why!?!?!?!
This is the same reason i give for why i don’t drink and all my friends seem to be cool with it. I even go out quite ofter when they get drunk and they don’t push me to drink or anything. I heard it originally from James Randi and now has become a cached thought of mine.
Hello my name is Zachary Aletheia (when my wife and i got married we decided to choose a last name based on something that had meaning to use aletheia means truth in greek and we both have a passion for finding out the truth). Looking back on my journey to being a rationalist i think it was a 2 step process (though given how i’ve repeatedly thought about it i probably have changed the details in my memory quite a bit). I think the first step was during a anthropology class i watched this film about “magic” (i was a neo-pagan at the time who believed i could manipulate energy with my mind) and how absurd the video seemed really made me want to find a way to be able to have beliefs that aren’t easy to see as absurd or laughable by others. From there i read quite a lot about logic (i still have a love affair with pure logic, i think i own 3 books on the subject and recently bought one from lukeprog). This all occured while i was a computer engineer undergraduate.
When i couldn’t pass physics (which at the time i thought , due to self-serving bias, was because i was more interested in what i got my degree in) i decided to switch majors to psychology. During this time i still took lots of vitamins and supplements and was even a 9/11 truther for a while. Then i took a class called “Cognition” where we learned about quite a few of the biases and heuristics that are talked about on LW. Since then I started listening to a ton of skeptic podcasts and in general have tried to be a better rationalist.
One area that i do seem to have a hard time being a rationalist about is myself. I hold my self in very low self esteem (for instance i truly debated if i should post on here because everyone seems so brilliant how could i possibly add anything). I am hoping on trying to apply reason to that area of my life.
When it comes to life goals i am still trying to figure that out. I am leaning towards becoming a psychology prof but really not sure.
Oh i found lesswrong due to lukeprog and CSA. I have since become basically addicted to reading posts on it.
Oh i live in seaside,ca if anyone lives near there i would love to go to a LW meet-up.
I live in seaside,ca.
Probably not just because its so far away
I live in monterey.
“Do not cite studies, turn the results of the study into a story” could you give an example?
wouldn’t the point be that its an amount of precision that is absolutely ridiculous given almost all situations?