Thanks everyone for the 100 follows! To celebrate, I'm going to do an introducing myself thread, inspired by @acidshill's ongoing introduction thread which is endlessly entertaining. Comment on any tweet in the thread, AMA style and I'll probably answer. https://twitter.com/acidshill/status/1254604909590097922?s=20

1. Why am I on twitter? Because like a ponzi scheme, I believe I'll be really cool and famous if I tell my friends to like me on twitter, but they're mostly cooler and more famous than me, since they joined first

2. But actually because twitter seems like a useful source of randomly bumping into new people and people I've met before wherever
And to a lesser extent, staying up to date on crypto stuff, but social media is comparatively bad at that
And memes

3. IMO, Psychometrics are just horoscopes for people that read, but they're fun, and I'm anti-nonsense, not anti fun.
I took the big 5 index 6 months ago and again last month
http://www.personal.psu.edu/~j5j/IPIP/?fbclid=IwAR10blTU76Ux1LMuUbR_pFPrBRFMVCeFEQSnpDp0zseAUkpqUvKt9NO90jo

Which was interesting because it showed the before and after effects of Corona on my personality expression. trait: (Dec2019, May2020)
extraversion: 83, 93
Agreeableness: 27, 11
Conscientiousness: 48,79
Neuroticism: 3, 11
Openness: 93, 67

5. The difference I contextualize as Corona making me miss being an extravert more and want people. I think my openness and agreeableness numbers were just inflated the first time I took the test. I binged more with Corona, which nudged neuroticism up. And

6. My roommates disgusted me with how little they were cleaning, which drove me to feel more duty to keep spaces clean, which drove my conscientiousness score way up.

And as long as we're in the psychoanalytics world, my Myers Briggs (thinly veiled horoscope) is ENTP, which is taglined "The Debater"
https://www.16personalities.com/entp-personality
which I feel is plausibly me

8. The site linked above distinguishes between ENTP-Assertive and ENTP-Turbulent, which I'm certainly in the assertive camp. The article claims that I would be "uncompromisingly honest" which is certainly untrue, but is becoming closer true over time

9. I try to avoid lying for things low level stuff like perceived status. But sisalignment of values between people and their community drives dishonesty in my opinion, which is maybe the second best reason to lie

10. The best reason to lie is might be actually because of value alignment; @bhorowitz told a great story in his book The Hard Thing About Hard Things, in having to temporarily lie to his company Loudcloud to save part of it, or else allow letting it all fall apart

11. But I was also influenced a lot by @SamHarrisOrg book Lying--he made the point that we become so accustomed to lying for arbitrary things when we could instead be turning to truth, and deepening relationships with honesty, rather than isolating within lies