Point two: Using games to raise the sanity waterline.

My first game was/will be a bust in terms of this, but the idea itself is not without merit, but I don't want to start discussing game design in this post. What I am looking for are people who are interested in making this happen, whether by doing art, programming, design, PR, or contributing resources: connections, expertise, and/or funding.

I have:

• a brain
• advanced math skills
• an ability to do physics and teaching for food
• basic programming skills (C, Pascal, Python)
• a strong interest in the nascent ways in which rationality may be measured and cognitive tests in general
• a strong interest in software that could help in rationality or rationality related skill training
• some knowledge of computer science
• extensive familiarity with most of LW material.
• moderate people skills
• no art skills

I'm currently on an autodidactic track to learn more advanced programming skills over the next three months. I am also thinking of learning and then working to master a new language, most likley Haskell (though I still have an unresolved crush on Lisp so perhaps I'll go with that). I also enrolled this fall in the free AI and machine learning classes offered by some Stanford profs, so in six months time I should have basic skills there as well.

I am intelligent, young but inexperienced in game design, I thrive on working in groups and I have several related skill sets. I hope that by working on such projects, in any capacity, I will get experience and learn more than I would have otherwise (also hopefully get my name in there among awesome finished projects/products).

I would be interested in any open source project or commercial thingy (will work for peanuts or free there to get xp and do something that has really caught my imagination).

How does that sound? Remember, free brains are neat.