Alicorn comments on Open thread, 11-17 August 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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I independently conceived of determinism and a vague sort of compatibilism when I was twelveish.
I remember being inordinately relieved/happy/satisfied when I first read about determinism around 14 or 15 (in Sophie's World, fwiw). It was like, thank you, that's what I've been trying to articulate all these years!
(although they casually dismissed it as a philosophy in the book, which annoyed 14-or-15-year-old me)
Good one! I think I also figured out a vague sort of compatibilism about that time.