magfrump comments on What are you working on? December 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: magfrump 14 December 2011 10:05:02AM 2 points [-]

Previous post.

Progress report:

Social: My social skill improvement continues to be successful, and I'm much happier socially. I joined okcupid, not for any particular purpose but because I realized the only reason I hadn't was an unfounded nervousness about "something."

Mathematics: I finished the first three chapters of Silverman and I have some papers to read; I'm going to be looking into some conjectures of Jochnowitz about the derivatives of L-series and Shimura lifts.

Practical: I replaced my keyboard and the new keyboard is great! Otherwise... I've been lazy due to winter break.

LessWrong: I stopped about in the middle of The Skeptical Environmentalist, possibly in part due to an ugh field from some negative comments and in part due to having some personal trouble reading recently. I just haven't been enjoying it. However! I joined the google group for developing rationality curricula and I'm pretty excited about that at the moment.

I don't feel particularly accomplished compared to the others on here...

Comment author: [deleted] 14 December 2011 06:56:12PM 2 points [-]

If you want a female perspective on your okc profile, message me.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 December 2011 03:22:51AM 3 points [-]

If you want a female perspective on your okc profile, message me.

That was fun! Offer stands open for anyone else!

Comment author: Username 14 December 2011 12:22:47PM *  0 points [-]

There are a few reasons I haven't joined OkCupid, but one of them is that I'm conflicted about the "drugs" question. I want to answer it honestly but don't want employers (and other squares) to see the honest answer.

I could make it harder to find by making the profile visible only to other OkCupid users and not using my regular internet pseudonym, but my location and pictures would still be there.

(I'm using the "community throwaway account" to write this.)

Edit: I like your profile.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 14 December 2011 01:41:12PM 3 points [-]

You can always leave the question blank on your profile and signal your drug use habits with the corresponding match questions. For a similar reason I don't list "casual sex" on my list of what I'm looking for, but my match questions suggest I'm amenable to it.