Open Thread Spring 2025
post by Ben Pace (Benito) · 2025-03-02T02:33:16.307Z · LW · GW · 1 commentsContents
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If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.
If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited. This is also the place to discuss feature requests and other ideas you have for the site, if you don't want to write a full top-level post.
If you're new to the community, you can start reading the Highlights from the Sequences, a collection of posts about the core ideas of LessWrong.
If you want to explore the community more, I recommend reading the Library [? · GW], checking recent Curated posts [? · GW], seeing if there are any meetups in your area [? · GW], and checking out the Getting Started [? · GW] section of the LessWrong FAQ [? · GW]. If you want to orient to the content on the site, you can also check out the Concepts section [? · GW].
The Open Thread tag is here [? · GW]. The Open Thread sequence is here [? · GW].
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comment by Marco Murgia · 2025-03-02T19:46:56.920Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Let me introduce myself! I am a PhD candidate in philosophy (epistemology and decision theory). I found this forum almost randomly and started reading some related posts that brought me here. I am basically interested in heuristics under conditions of uncertainty and how these are modelled by the mind after successfully using them. In the future, I would like to open a research centre for historical heuristics (basically, descriptively and possibly non-prescriptively analysing decisions from the documents and dynamics that caused certain decisions, really difficult without bias). Any questions or discussions, I am open to answers!