(On a lighter note) On re-reading Nick Beckstead’s post, I spent a while thinking “dear lord, he was an impossibly careful-thinking/well-informed teenager”*. Then I realised you’d meant 2013, not 2003 ;)
(*This is not to say he wasn’t a very smart, well-informed teenager, of course. And with the EA community in particular, this would not be so unlikely—the remarkable quality and depth of analysis in posts being published on the EA forum by people in their late teens and early twenties is one of the things that makes me most excited about the future!)
(On a lighter note) On re-reading Nick Beckstead’s post, I spent a while thinking “dear lord, he was an impossibly careful-thinking/well-informed teenager”*. Then I realised you’d meant 2013, not 2003 ;)
(*This is not to say he wasn’t a very smart, well-informed teenager, of course. And with the EA community in particular, this would not be so unlikely—the remarkable quality and depth of analysis in posts being published on the EA forum by people in their late teens and early twenties is one of the things that makes me most excited about the future!)