Salutations! I've been reading Less Wrong for three or four years now without registering - ever since stumbling across a supremely accessible explanation of Bayes Theorem - and suddenly felt I might have something to add. I feel significantly more cynical than most of the posters here, but endeavor to keep my pessimism grounded.
My parents raised me rationalist (not merely atheist), encouraging an environment where questions were always more important than answers and everyone was willing to admit that "I don't know." I spent the requisite few years in my adolescence imagining I knew everything, but that delusion passed. Then I dropped out of three colleges - on scholarships, making those... (read more)
Salutations! I've been reading Less Wrong for three or four years now without registering - ever since stumbling across a supremely accessible explanation of Bayes Theorem - and suddenly felt I might have something to add. I feel significantly more cynical than most of the posters here, but endeavor to keep my pessimism grounded.
My parents raised me rationalist (not merely atheist), encouraging an environment where questions were always more important than answers and everyone was willing to admit that "I don't know." I spent the requisite few years in my adolescence imagining I knew everything, but that delusion passed. Then I dropped out of three colleges - on scholarships, making those... (read more)