neurorithm

Hey Less Wrong! My name is Josh, and I'm an engineer interested in Less Wrong as a community and a social experiment :) 

I read the Sequences back in 2011 when I was in college at UC Berkeley studying engineering – they were a little smaller and more readable back then, and Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality was not yet at its full length. Over the next two years, I read the HPMOR and Sequences and read books on cognitive science like Thinking Fast and Slow, and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I also took a workshop with Valentine at CFAR in its early iteration - all I really remember is CFAR's... (read 353 more words →)