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Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010-2011)
Celestia00

Because I'm strongly interested in both subjects, could very well pursue a career in one of them (or related fields), and there are excellent resources for both in the university system, especially for physics (research opportunities, labs, etc.).

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7Wei Dai
I think the consensus around here is that too many high IQ people go into physics compared to what is socially optimal. Unfortunately my Google-fu is failing me and I can't find the posts/discussions I have in mind. (Anyone want to help me out?) The closest I could find is Paul Christiano's The Value of Theoretical Research.
Myers-Briggs / MLPTI personality-type conversion chart
Celestia20

I approve of this system.

Under MBTI I'm an INTJ, but I think that INTPs better fit under TS than under any other category; they're simply farther from a typical TS.

Also, I propose also putting ESTP under RD. I think the ESP is more important/has more weight than the ESF.

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-1ArisKatsaris
With that name, how could you not? :-)
Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010-2011)
Celestia170

Hello Less Wrongians! I'm a 17 year old American student who found Less Wrong through Common Sense Atheism, and has lurked here for several months. Only today did I decide that this was a community I wanted to take the next step with; actually join.

I've always had a rationalist "pull." Though for most of my life it manifested itself in a Traditional Rationalist way, I have a profound drive to find out what is the case. I was raised as a Roman Catholic, though not a particularly strict one, but abandoned this very quickly (fifth grade), helped ... (read more)

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2Vaniver
Welcome! I got a physics / econ double degree, and I recommend against studying econ in college, unless there are some really good professors at the college you go to. What you suspect about philosophy is true, and even more true for econ. I learned ~2 things in the econ classes I took that I hadn't learned in my personal reading on the subject (whereas I learned quite a bit of physics in classes), and so feel like those classes were wasted opportunities. I strongly recommend a field like computer science instead, if you have the least bit of aptitude for programming. If not, psychology seems like it could be super useful, but the cognitive science is few and far between, or electrical engineering fits with physics pretty well. (I do recommend reading Adam Smith's On The Wealth of Nations at some point if you haven't already. It's easy enough to get through, and it's a remarkably good foundation for the field.) ((Also, *brohoof* :3))
5Wei Dai
Why do you intend to study physics or economics in college?
0kilobug
Welcome here !