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To use the internet term... I know that feel.

Godwin's Law - You mentioned Nazis, you automatically lose.

(Unless that was part of a joke. If it was part of a joke, then it was funny. Also, you have a point - Those skills are rather common.)

Alternatively, it could result in falling through the floor, and being trapped in the Earth's core for all of eternity... Or until you die, whichever comes sooner.

This may sound odd, but could there be a subreddit for competitive video games and rational strategies/playstyles?

For as far back as I can remember, I have always been a Rationalist, even before I knew what it was. I'd examine something from all angles, and think about things most people from my home town would not even consider. I saw this as me being smarter than them. I actually am smarter than them, but not only for that reason.

I could never really relate to anyone, back home. I saw them as dumb, uneducated, boring people that refused to think about anything. They openly refused to understand logic. They were stupid. They wasted their childhoods failing school and... (read more)

I am new here, and I am not sure what to do.

I am new here, and I am not sure what to do.

I think most LWers would advise you to read the Sequences, but I reckon you could get 80% of the value from doing so by reading two of the following four books (which would be much less time consuming):

  1. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

  2. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

  3. Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics by Gary Drescher

  4. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Randy_M110

Not sure what to do here, or not sure what to do more generally?

6ModusPonies
Welcome! I hope you find this community as useful as I have. —As others have suggested, reading the sequences is extremely useful and I wholeheartedly recommend it. However, it's also really long. If you want to start with something less huge, there's some good stuff here. —Consider saying more about yourself here or in this thread. —Where do you live? There might be an in-person meetup nearby.
0[anonymous]
Welcome! I hope you find this community as useful as I have. —As others have suggested, reading the sequences is extremely useful and I wholeheartedly recommend it. However, it's also really long. If you want to start with something less huge, there's some good stuff http://www.lesswrong.com/about/. —Consider saying more about yourself here or in this thread. —Where do you live? There might be an in-person http://lesswrong.com/meetups/ nearby.
4Shmi
Why are you here? Describe in the Welcome thread to get feedback.
4bartimaeus
Read the Sequences. How did you find the site?
-2ThrustVectoring
New stuff is less helpful than you'd think it is. Start with the lesswrong Sequences (just google it, too lazy to make a hyperlink).