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I read HPMOR and thought "if this stuff (meaning rationality) actually works, it's powerful in a way that I haven't seen before." I remember thinking something like that at the time, but memory is fairly unreliable. I'll have to dig through old journals to see if I mentioned it anywhere.
I read HPMOR. That got me interested in Lesswrong. The most I can say for pre-rationalist!me was that I was curious and a bit creative.
I was accepted into graduate school at a nice university for bioinformatics.
Me too.
A 6ft crocodile is necessary at such events. I'm really not sure how you all managed without Mr. Scaly. :)
Clearly, this event needed many more owls.
I wish my high school teachers had done this.
A+
The crocodiles and owls are our best residents. Especially the 6 ft (2 meter) long crocodile named Mr. Scaly. He is Great and Proud and Frolicsome.
I cannot be truly killed by any power known to me.
Prophecy, much? The power he knows not? I mean, that's a gimme but...
Yes. But two minutes before that he was thinking of taking Cedric, and then we get a cut scene to him sneaking about in the hallway with Lesath. That implies that Cedric might still be in play, otherwise we probably would've gotten a short sentence or two on why he chose Lesath over Cedric.
I read HPMOR and thought "if this stuff (meaning rationality) actually works, it's powerful in a way that I haven't seen before." I remember thinking something like that at the time, but memory is fairly unreliable. I'll have to dig through old journals to see if I mentioned it anywhere.
The seque...(read more)
I read HPMOR. That got me interested in Lesswrong. The most I can say for pre-rationalist!me was that I was curious and a bit creative.
I was accepted into graduate school at a nice university for bioinformatics.
Me too.
A 6ft crocodile is necessary at such events. I'm really not sure how you all managed without Mr. Scaly. :)
Clearly, this event needed many more owls.
I wish my high school teachers had done this.
A+
The crocodiles and owls are our best residents. Especially the 6 ft (2 meter) long crocodile named Mr. Scaly. He is Great and Proud and Frolicsome.
Prophecy, much? The power he knows not? I mean, that's a gimme but...
Yes. But two minutes before that he was thinking of taking Cedric, and then we get a cut scene to him sneaking about in the hallway with Lesath. That implies that Cedric might still be in play, otherwise we probably would've gotten a short sentence or two on why he chose Lesath over Cedric.
Cedric...(read more)