I'm m6ram. Nice to meet you.

[m6ram]

Hey, I'm new here. It's nice to meet you folks! =)

I'm middle-aged with a family. I'm lower class, but I've been very lucky to have an education and variety of odd cultural life experiences. I'm INTJ. I am extremely idealist. I am autistic (feel free to point it out; it will not offend me). Once in a while, I rub people the wrong way, but that is neither my intent nor goal. I always aim to be polite, even if I don't understand the social convention or ritual in a given context. I speak and think weirdly (e.g. I'm overly reliant upon parentheses, my grammar and rhetorical skills blow, etc.), so please bear with me. If my writing comes off as cold, overly-analytic, alien, or arrogant, I'm very sorry. That's literally the best (only?) way I know how to constructively express my point of view. I'm not putting on airs; I'm just socially inept at an instinctual level (hopefully less so at an intellectual level).

I love computers (almost everything about them, seriously) and philosophy (specializing in metaethics, political phil., and epistemology); they are my vocations. My primary work is devoted 1) to enabling privacy, anonymity, and information access, and 2) to preventing censorship, intellectual property regimes, and overly centralized power structures. I'd like to think I adhere to some variant of the hacker ethic, and I want to be a guerrilla librarian. I'm fairly Rawlsian, but I take ponerology and academic work about moral psychology and sociology concerning psychopathy very seriously. I often take up naturalist, reductionist, and skeptical stances or perspectives.

I strive to be empathic and rigorous, but I'm not a very trusting person in many ways. I am not a happy person. They are related.

I'd call myself a Marxist. I'm not sure what "camp" best describes my point of view. My mind is not made up on plenty of issues. One reason you may not consider me a Marxist: I do not have hope for humanity. I take many Marxist prescriptions and descriptions of the world to be fairly accurate. I do not think, however, that any major revolution will succeed at this point (not in time to save humanity at least). I'm going to fight for it anyways though. I find there to be an important distinction between what I expect humanity to do (whatever it is we morally-speaking ought to do) and what I predict humanity will do. I hope you can be tolerant of my pessimism, which will be politely conveyed.

Essentially, I find the spectrum of "Red pill" theories (there are many varieties, imho) often contains valuable, (sadly) accurate, contrarian descriptions of humanity as a species. Even when a Red pill description is accurate, however, that doesn't make any corresponding Red pill prescription correct (I'm worried about the "naturalistic fallacy"). To be clear, I think psychopathic influence on humanity is pervasive, but I'm here to fight against it. Simply put, I think people suck, and there are excellent evolutionary explanations for why we suck; but, insofar as we can, we ought to respect each other, to maximize utility, or to enable human flourishing. I take at least some version(s) of Marxism to be aiming for that. So, perhaps you can think of me as a crypto-anarchic, Rawlsian (anti-classic-libertarian), red-pilled, Marxist punk. I want to have my cake and eat it too. I don't know how we can do it.

What else should I say in an introduction? Ummm...I like travelling, walks on the beach, and, of course, Rage Against the Machine. =)