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What is your rationalist backstory?
Michelle_Z10y10

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 sequences also had the advantage of being written in an entertaining way. Beyond that, I'm not sure what makes me any different. I'd like to think I'm special or have some trait that makes me more prone to rationality, but that's purely self-serving. More likely it's luck-- reading it at the right time when I was in a headspace to absorb that kind of knowledge.

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What is your rationalist backstory?
Michelle_Z10y20

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.

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Bragging Thread July 2015
Michelle_Z10y110

I was accepted into graduate school at a nice university for bioinformatics.

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Crazy Ideas Thread
Michelle_Z10y60

Me too.

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European Community Weekend 2015 - Followup
Michelle_Z10y10

A 6ft crocodile is necessary at such events. I'm really not sure how you all managed without Mr. Scaly. :)

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European Community Weekend 2015 - Followup
Michelle_Z10y20

Clearly, this event needed many more owls.

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A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom
Michelle_Z10y90

I wish my high school teachers had done this.

A+

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Less Wrong Study Hall - Year Two
Michelle_Z10y30

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.

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapters 105-107
Michelle_Z10y280

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...

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 104
Michelle_Z10y200

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, who may or may not have a time turner, could quite possibly show up.

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