User:Sunrise

Sunrise is a symbol of optimism and hope for the future. I consider myself an altruist, and I edit Wikipedia to contribute to public education.

I strongly recommend that everybody read LessWrong (about), a website that teaches you how to improve your reasoning. There is a lot of content, but even small parts are worth it: humans are prone to a lot of biases and fallacies, and your thought processes make many more errors than you think, but in many cases you can learn to minimize or avoid them.

The "highlights" are some of my favorites. I've selected ones that are understandable without too many concepts described on other pages, but you can follow the links to explanations if necessary.
 * How to Actually Change Your Mind
 * Highlights pt 1: Affective death spirals, The fallacy of gray, Absence of evidence is evidence of absence, The bottom line


 * Highlights pt 2: Cached thoughts, One argument against an army, Policy debates should not appear one-sided, The importance of saying "oops"


 * 37 Ways that Words can be Wrong
 * Highlights: Taboo your words, Words as hidden inferences, Disputing definitions, Sneaking in connotations


 * Miscellaneous highlights: Burdensome details, Expecting short inferential distances, The quotation is not the referent, What is evidence?

Favorite books

 * Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
 * Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
 * The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner
 * Don't Believe Everything You Think by Thomas Kida

Inspirational stuff

 * Hope Eyrie
 * Fire in the Sky
 * The best stats you've ever seen
 * (Also The magic washing machine, Let my dataset change your mindset)

Useful stuff

 * User:Sunrise/Citation tools
 * User:FiachraByrne
 * Tools: contributions analysis, interaction analysis, top edited articles, text origin, contributor stats for a specific article
 * User scripts: syntax highlighter, page size measurement, increase page display width, auto-updating watchlist with inline diffs
 * Special pages: what links here, find subpages, compare two pages, recent changes linked (can be used for custom watchlists)

Some things to think about:
 * Improving Wikipedia's important articles
 * List of vital articles
 * Popular biology pages
 * Popular medical pages
 * Requested articles in the natural sciences

I do not use this name anywhere other than Wikipedia. If you see this name used elsewhere, it is being used by a different person.

I do have some other Wikipedia accounts. Needless to say, the one(s) which have made edits comply with WP:SOCK. Any checkuser is welcome to test me for this; however, please do not publicly disclose the account(s) without compelling reason, per WP:SOCK under "Privacy." Please feel free to e-mail me with any concerns.

This account was previously named Arc de Ciel.