I was under the impression that people who endorse Objectivism also tend to be jerks that are unpleasant to be around...
I'm not necessarily endorsing any people, just the philosophy. I don't think I'm a jerk and unpleasant to be around, but I am an engineer after all. My LW meetup group seems to like me well enough, you can ask them what they think of me :)
Hello all,
I'm working on a top-level post about how Stoicism is an instrumentally useful philosophy to adopt, and figured I should give other philosophies a fair shake as well. Does anyone know of any other philosophies out there that seem to be practically useful or otherwise provide strategies and thought patterns that have practical value? A solid grounding in experimental research is of course desirable.