Oscar_Cunningham comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: troll 17 April 2012 08:34:44PM 13 points [-]

minimalist, 17, white, male, autodidact, atheist, libertarian, california, hacker, studying computer science, reading sequences, intellectual upbringing, 1 year bayesian rationalist, motivation deficient, focusing on skills, was creating something similar to bayesian rationality before conversion, have read hpmor (not intro to lw), interested in contributing to ai research in the future

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 17 April 2012 10:31:50PM *  9 points [-]

"Minimalist" is implied by the sparsity of the rest of the comment, and so is ironically redundant.

Comment author: troll 17 April 2012 10:39:47PM 9 points [-]

There are a few other reasons I could be formatting my introduction that way, such as being bad at English or writing in general. I used "minimalist" both as a heads up for the format and to draw away from the other possible explanations.