On this page, I’ll (briefly) describe who I am. If you want to skip to the good part, here’s a list of my essays, a map of the entire site, and a gallery of my (bad) photography. You can also contact me at lachlan.marvit@gmail.com, or lawliet5968 on discord (preferred).
With that out of the way, let’s talk about me! Describing a person by what they do is a very common category error. I could tell you I’m quite decent at chess, or that I quit magic in 2019. But that doesn’t really tell much about who I am.
I claim that who someone is (which is isomorphic to how they see the world, in a very broad sense) is something you have to intuit.
With that in mind, the best I can do is provide details I find helpful, and leave the rest to you.
• Math (all topology, most algebra up to algebraic geometry, also the other stuff I guess)
• Philosophy (ethics, aesthetics, linguistics, logic, anything but politics)
• Photography
• Worldviews
• Friendly debate
• Getting off buses at places I should not
• Talking to strangers
• Abusing English
• The cold
• Sadness
• Short walks to the lake
• Italics
• Tangents (on circles and in essays)
• Em-dashes
• Climbing
• Getting a little bit lost
• Taking a peek around the edge of existence
• 112 hour work weeks
• Ranked Terraforming Mars
• Measure theoretic interpretations of logical philosophy, useless though it may be (credit to Oak)
• Cold showers
• Cold showers
• Ayn Rand (and philosophical suicide in general)
• Definitions (ew)
• The Sequences (and Eliezer in general)
• Unnecessary codifications of human experience
• Myself one year ago (may this always stay true)
• Parties
• Ceviche
• Early buses
• The artforms I appreciate most are music, photography, and literature (film is cool too)
• I strongly believe you should do things. Obviously that isn’t very specific — the rat term is “being agentic.” I think the simplest way this manifests for me is if I’m commuting (or otherwise on my way somewhere) and I see something I want to take a photo of, or someone I want to talk to, I’ll get off and accept being late.
• I find worldviews really cool! You can learn a lot (I would argue almost everything) about a person from how they see the world. And well-thought people are usually really fun to learn about! I don’t mean worldviews in the limited political sense, but rather a more literal term meaning “how they see the world” — their sense of aesthetics, core beliefs, driving forces, etc.
• I obviously have specific plans and goals, but my broad intentions are approximately as follows: become (more) cracked at philosophy (referring to the field broadly), become actually cracked at math/cs (instead of quasi-cracked), build/create awesome shit with insane people and live a very satisfactory life. I invite you to rope me into anything that helps with any of these.
If you want to know more about me, send me a message!