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Comment author: Maelin 07 February 2012 07:13:25AM 4 points [-]

I've been here since OB. I found OB by accident, I think, when I was procrastinating instead of writing my thesis. My memory is fuzzy and, I think, has possibly been overwritten when I tried to reconstruct it, but as I recall my first article was The Parable of the Dagger. I remember that at the time I was pleased with the neat logic puzzle involved in the article, and shared the puzzle with some friends. Unfortunately I don't remember how I came upon OB in the first place.

After solving the angry frog puzzle I discovered a whole pile of rather excellent posts explaining concisely a lot of half-verbalised feelings about how people tend to think that I'd, until then, never really been able to crystallise. I remember tearing voraciously through the backlog of Eliezer's posts, to the point that I would print posts out so I could read them on the train home.

I also can't remember when I first became an atheist, though I know it was when I was 13-14. All these epistemically significant events in my life and I can't remember them!