alethiophile comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ata 31 May 2010 09:50:29AM * 8 points [-]

Reply to this comment if you found LW through Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality!

A survey for anyone who cares to respond (edit: specifically for people who did find LW through HPMoR):

Had you already registered an account before seeing this? (Edit: That is, had you already registered an account for a reason other than to reply to this comment?) If not, had you been planning or expecting to?
Have you been reading through the sequences, or just generally looking around and lurking?
What new rationality skills that you learned from HPMoR or LW have you found most useful? Most interesting? Most change-the-way-you-look-at-everything-ly?
Have you referred anyone else to HPMoR? Have you referred anyone else to LW?

Comment author: alethiophile 29 July 2010 08:54:07PM 3 points [-]

I knew of LW's existence before HPMoR, through the same source that referred me to HPMoR (ESR).

I registered mostly to comment on this post.
I've been reading the Sequences.
More stuff about Bayes' Theorem (my extent of knowledge before I read the Intuitive Explanation was the idea that there will be many false positives on searching for rare events).
No.