Hey everyone!

I'm a long-time lurker of this site, but I haven't posted anything before. I've read all the sequences twice over the past few years, along with almost all non-sequence posts. The list of all posts was really not in an obvious location, but I eventually managed to find it!

So I'm new to the idea of actually communicating with people over the internet; I've never actually been a member of any forum before. Though I have a Reddit account, I've only made about ten posts in the year that I've been there. It's really weird; I often find myself thinking I have a response to something I read, then thinking "too bad I can't communicate with them!", completely forgetting that no, wait, I have an account expressly for that purpose.

I've decided that this pseudo-voyeurism of online communities has gone on long enough and decided to join. I don't know if I'll have anything to contribute, as I'm pretty critical of the value of my own ideas, to the point that I once tried to start a blog but decided that everything I could ever want to say has already been said, and I deleted the blog after one post. Maybe I need to impose a comment quota on myself?

In any case, I'm a physics grad student who mostly works in biophysics. I'm also interested in pure mathematics, philosophy, and computer science / artificial intelligence, though I procrastinate too much and don't really know more than the average CS minor. I plan on changing that at some point (he said, ironically).