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Will of the People
Created on 2004-01-15 13:32:25 (#1897389), last updated 2009-11-28
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Basic Info| Name: | Pat Gunn |
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| Birthdate: | 1978-06-28 |
| Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Website: | ぼくのウェブペジ |
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pgunn@dachte.org BioThis is sync'd, courtesy of LJ::Simple, from my actual blog located at http://blog.dachte.org/pound/blog/dachte
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As for me,
I'm from Texas but was mostly raised in the Northern United States. I am a programmer, sysadmin, and general Unix geek. I am also interested in philosophy and psychology. I'm a socialist academe, an avid reader, and a prolific source of bad jokes. I graduated from University sometime around 2001, but I'm not done learning yet. I care about people, but value my solitude. When in a relationship, I love fiercely, but I haven't found people who are suitable, available, and interested for a long time. I'm fairly shy. I have two legs and two cats (probably a coincidence). Until recently, I did MRI research for CMU. I ate any brains that looked particularly tasty, but I'm not a zombie. My zombie friends are jealous of me both for eating brains and not being a zombie. I started playing music with them and we had a band called the ZomBie-tles, but we broke up when bits of them started breaking up. I am part of several cabals, but I can't connect to them anymore because I lost my Cabalmodem.
I am deeply enthused about the sciences, and care a lot about the world, the public good, world history, and current events. I approach the world from a philosophical perspective that is materialist, empiricist, relativist, and informed by broad readings in philosophy. I believe that science and politics without a good background of philosophy are blind when it comes to approaching meaning or "should".
I am moderately libertine, but I strongly oppose Libertarian or liberty-fundamentalist political philosophy. If you start from first principles and use a rights-based style of reasoning to move us towards minarchism, I'll disagree with you strongly. If instead you value personal autonomy and strive to build a system that includes a good amount of it in our general conception of the public good, I'm more likely to agree with you.
You may leave comments on either.
As for me,
I'm from Texas but was mostly raised in the Northern United States. I am a programmer, sysadmin, and general Unix geek. I am also interested in philosophy and psychology. I'm a socialist academe, an avid reader, and a prolific source of bad jokes. I graduated from University sometime around 2001, but I'm not done learning yet. I care about people, but value my solitude. When in a relationship, I love fiercely, but I haven't found people who are suitable, available, and interested for a long time. I'm fairly shy. I have two legs and two cats (probably a coincidence). Until recently, I did MRI research for CMU. I ate any brains that looked particularly tasty, but I'm not a zombie. My zombie friends are jealous of me both for eating brains and not being a zombie. I started playing music with them and we had a band called the ZomBie-tles, but we broke up when bits of them started breaking up. I am part of several cabals, but I can't connect to them anymore because I lost my Cabalmodem.
I am deeply enthused about the sciences, and care a lot about the world, the public good, world history, and current events. I approach the world from a philosophical perspective that is materialist, empiricist, relativist, and informed by broad readings in philosophy. I believe that science and politics without a good background of philosophy are blind when it comes to approaching meaning or "should".
I am moderately libertine, but I strongly oppose Libertarian or liberty-fundamentalist political philosophy. If you start from first principles and use a rights-based style of reasoning to move us towards minarchism, I'll disagree with you strongly. If instead you value personal autonomy and strive to build a system that includes a good amount of it in our general conception of the public good, I'm more likely to agree with you.
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academia, acapella covers, accordion, anticonsumerism, atheism, bad speling, britcoms, c, calligraphy, carnegie mellon university, cheese, chiptunes, cmu, cognitive science, communism, computer networking, cosmology, creating confusion, darkwave, disorder, distributed algorithms, dynix, earth first, emptiness, environment, europe, fault-tolerance, feeding cats strange things, gaming, genetics, german techno, governance, greenpeace, healthy eating, history, human vision, iguanas, indian food, introspection, kink, language, languages, law, lawrence lessig, learning, lessig, linux, marx, miskatonic university, moonlight, mri, nature, neuropsychology, nietzsche, no tv, nuance, openbsd, operating systems, order, paneer tikka makhni, perl, pets, petting cats backwards, philosophy, photography, piano, pittsburgh, plainclothes goth, political philosophy, programming, programming languages, psychology, public good, radical openness, rainy days, rawls, research, retrocomputing, rocky horror, rpgs, saag paneer, science, science fiction, sentience, singing, sleeping, socialism, spinach, string bass, swimming, tea, transhumanism, unicos, unix, vegetarianism, walking, water, waterfalls, wind, writing
Schools:
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA (1900)Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School - Broadview Heights, OH (1992 - 1996)
Ohio State University - Columbus, OH (1996 - 2001)
Miskatonic University - Arkham, MA (2001 - 2002)
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