Ella S.
Well-Known Member
I have been signing up on forum to forum for years now and never settled in one long. Part of the reason for this is that people on the internet can be hostile and I am an odd person so I frequently end up being harassed or unfairly banned wherever I go.
I have been on the fence about staying here, which I suppose I have been inappropriately vocal about. I have learned to be rather detached from communities that I pass through.
However, I understand why I keep coming back to this forum. On other forums, if you have a disagreement then it turns into insulting one another's position. Here, usually, people are genuinely interested in discussion.
This gives me a chance to apply my knowledge of logic outside of just statistical analysis and programming. Logic is a passion of mine from Godel to Laplace to Turing and everything from deductive, modal, fuzzy, syllogistic, symbolic, imperative, computational, and so on.
I had a recent discussion on another forum where I shared my ethical perspective and I was mocked and called immoral. This was after somebody in another thread had called my (correct) understanding of Occam's Razor delusional and idiotic.
This disappointed me. If I return to that forum it won't be until after I have had a long break from it. I just don't understand why such antagonism has become the norm for discussion. It is unproductive and, most of the time, the antagonists do not read what I write, anyway.
Due to this forum here, I have come to appreciate that there is utility in maintaining a connection to other people despite my lack of desire to socialize. We can engage in dialectic, share information, brainstorm solutions and alternative hypotheses together, and we can give one another new perspectives from having to pragmatically live out our theoretical philosophies.
As stilted and aloof as I am, I find that there are a few users here that are genuinely pleasant and productive to talk to. Cino, RJM, muhammad_isa, wil, Thomas, Leveller, Namaste Jesus, Unveilled artist, nolose, Aupmanyav, seattlegal, and Draco99 among others. I have never seen a forum filled with so many nice people before. Thanks for tolerating and welcoming me into the conversation.
I have been on the fence about staying here, which I suppose I have been inappropriately vocal about. I have learned to be rather detached from communities that I pass through.
However, I understand why I keep coming back to this forum. On other forums, if you have a disagreement then it turns into insulting one another's position. Here, usually, people are genuinely interested in discussion.
This gives me a chance to apply my knowledge of logic outside of just statistical analysis and programming. Logic is a passion of mine from Godel to Laplace to Turing and everything from deductive, modal, fuzzy, syllogistic, symbolic, imperative, computational, and so on.
I had a recent discussion on another forum where I shared my ethical perspective and I was mocked and called immoral. This was after somebody in another thread had called my (correct) understanding of Occam's Razor delusional and idiotic.
This disappointed me. If I return to that forum it won't be until after I have had a long break from it. I just don't understand why such antagonism has become the norm for discussion. It is unproductive and, most of the time, the antagonists do not read what I write, anyway.
Due to this forum here, I have come to appreciate that there is utility in maintaining a connection to other people despite my lack of desire to socialize. We can engage in dialectic, share information, brainstorm solutions and alternative hypotheses together, and we can give one another new perspectives from having to pragmatically live out our theoretical philosophies.
As stilted and aloof as I am, I find that there are a few users here that are genuinely pleasant and productive to talk to. Cino, RJM, muhammad_isa, wil, Thomas, Leveller, Namaste Jesus, Unveilled artist, nolose, Aupmanyav, seattlegal, and Draco99 among others. I have never seen a forum filled with so many nice people before. Thanks for tolerating and welcoming me into the conversation.
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