If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.
If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited. This is also the place to discuss feature requests and other ideas you have for the site, if you don't want to write a full top-level post.
If you're new to the community, you can start reading the Highlights from the Sequences, a collection of posts about the core ideas of LessWrong.
I recently came across LessWrong (through ChatGPT -- sorry...) while looking for places to have interesting and deeply intellectual conversations. I've been reading through some of the posts here and the guides to get a sense of how things work and it seems like this might be the place I was looking for.
To be honest I'm more psychologically minded than anything else; interested in how people form beliefs, the breakdown of reasoning, how biases form and stick, etc. I'm fortunate in that I've had a lot of exposure to academia from a pretty early age so I've kind of grown up with behavioral economics and skepticism and whatnot, but I'm hoping to get the opportunity to have discussions in more varied contexts.
I'm also curious to discuss where people see the link between psychology and AI. Intuitively it feels to me like there should be a lot of overlap between understanding human reasoning and building and interpreting AI systems (by AI I generally mean LLMs, but not exclusively).
I'm still new to the site so mostly trying to get a better feel, but wanted to say hi.
If there are any posts anyone thinks are especially good about these topics, I'd love to read them.
If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.
If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited. This is also the place to discuss feature requests and other ideas you have for the site, if you don't want to write a full top-level post.
If you're new to the community, you can start reading the Highlights from the Sequences, a collection of posts about the core ideas of LessWrong.
If you want to explore the community more, I recommend reading the Library, checking recent Curated posts, seeing if there are any meetups in your area, and checking out the Getting Started section of the LessWrong FAQ. If you want to orient to the content on the site, you can also check out the Concepts section.
The Open Thread tag is here. The Open Thread sequence is here.