Welcome!

My background is in physics and mathematical optimization techniques, and so it interests me a lot what perspective people without those skills have on the sorts of thinking and strategies we talk about on Less Wrong. Knowing what [inferential gaps] we missed is really useful to writers or educators. Don't be afraid to ask questions.

Or, if it comes to it, to let sleeping theories lie. Lots of posters here don't finish all of the sequences, or avoid the more esoteric decision theory posts.