Hi all,

Would this be the best place to introduce onesself?

I'm 24, male, and resident in Bristol, England. I'm currently studying (read: procrastinating) for a master's degree in computer science, and my undergrad degree was in English lit and mathematics.

I've been lurking LW on and off for some twelve or eighteen months, but I held off from registering for a while because I feel like my interests overlap only somewhat with those of the Lesswrong community. For example, I'm not especially interested in AI friendliness or existential risk; on the other hand, I am interested in effective altruism, ways to work more effectively and procrastinate less, and general bias-awareness, all of which seem to be staple topics here.

Other things i care and think a lot about include music and books, gender and sexuality. (Incidentally, I thought the Lesswrong Women series that ran recently was in general very good.) Politically speaking, I'm more left-leaning than libertarian, which seems like it might be the default political stance on LW (but which, incidentally, barely seems to exist out here in the old world). In brief, I think I'm more of what the North Americans would call a 'liberal arts' type by temperament, but with kind of a rational/scientific bent, too. In any case, I hope to make a decent contribution here.