Open thread, May 17-31 2013

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

I am new here, and I am not sure what to do.

I am new here, and I am not sure what to do.

I think most LWers would advise you to read the Sequences, but I reckon you could get 80% of the value from doing so by reading two of the following four books (which would be much less time consuming):

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics by Gary Drescher
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

11Randy_M13y

Not sure what to do here, or not sure what to do more generally?

6ModusPonies13y

Welcome! I hope you find this community as useful as I have. —As others have suggested, reading the sequences is extremely useful and I wholeheartedly recommend it. However, it's also really long. If you want to start with something less huge, there's some good stuff here. —Consider saying more about yourself here or in this thread. —Where do you live? There might be an in-person meetup nearby.

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