| bio | website | profiles.google.com/simfish |
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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 92 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | May 27 at 15:04 | |
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Quora page: http://www.quora.com/Alex-K-Chen
CiteULike here: http://www.citeulike.org/user/InquilineKea
Feel free to stalk my Internet name(s) if you wish - it's how I make most of my closest contacts these days. Just note that I don't really believe in social constructs when they get in the way of satisficing (or in the way of my goal of learning as much as possible). I've collected a massive list of educational resources here: http://www.quora.com/Alex-K-Chen/Useful-Science-Learning-Resource-Collections
Don't take anything I say/do too seriously. A lot of the things I do (that may look weird/stupid on the outside) are the types of things that help me adjust my posterior probability of various things - especially low probability events.Sometimes I hit on a jackpot/very interesting idea. I'm kind of messy since it helps facilitate creative destruction.
I have a lot of respect for all of the sciences. Tactically, I'm developing heuristics for rationality, impartiality, anti-laziness, and creation+identification+searching for what's relevant+reliable. Strategically, I just want to learn everything.
A lot of my thought processes involve my creating new hypotheses and refuting them on my own. I still document the thought process since it's important and may be important for future "true" hypotheses.
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