Hello! I'm Alex, from Maryland, but I go to college in Ithaca, NY, where I am working on my math major/computer science minor. Way back when, a few of my friends kept talking about how great HPMOR was, so I started reading and I loved it. It is one of my all-time favorite stories. As I was reading it, I was very interested by all the ways Harry knew how to think right, and then one of my friends recommended the sequences and I read them all! Except for metaethics and quantum stuff.

I really enjoyed the sequences. They changed how I think. I managed to climb out of the agnostic trap of "you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a deity". I plan on becoming even more rational. I've heard CFAR is a good resource.

I had been reading the posts on the main page for a while when I saw the most recent census and felt guilty about taking it without an account, so I made one but haven't used it until now. I didn't feel right commenting in other places when I hadn't introduced myself, but I am finally done putting it off!