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title: About me
description: biography, contact information
creation_date: 2014-09-13
last_major_revision_date: 2015-08-27
feed_description: include more interests
license: CC0
tags: personal
aliases: me
---

*This page is about myself (Issa Rice); for information about this
website, see [About the site]().*

# Self-introduction

I am highly introverted[^pers] and curious about a wide array of things.
My interests include [cause prioritization](http://causeprioritization.org/), [effective altruism](),
vegetarianism and veganism, the free content movement (e.g. copyleft and the [Creative Commons](!w)), the free software movement,
typography (though mostly just with LaTeX and this website), [content creation](content-creation), longevity, neoteny, cute things and people, [androgyny](https://www.quora.com/Are-the-parents-who-raise-their-children-so-gender-neutral-that-they-keep-their-kids-gender-a-secret-harming-them/answer/Eva-Glasrud),
[castration and eunuchs](http://lesswrong.com/lw/lm4/effects_of_castration_on_the_life_expectancy_of/), pederasty[^pederasty], long-term thinking, the quantified self, [LessWrong]()-style rationality, [EconLog](), [unschooling](), [hikikomori](!w), some kinds of [music](music-i-like-to-listen-to), and
[existential risk].

[^pers]: See my [profile]() page for more about my personality and views.

I spend a lot of time on various sites online, including [Facebook]() and [Quora]().
My [contact]() page has a longer list of my online accounts.


[^pederasty]: From "[Those Whom The Gods Love Grow Young: Some Notes on Wilde, Greece & Youth](http://dmouth.com/writing/2014/4/12/those-whom-the-gods-love-grow-young-some-notes-on-wilde-greece-youth)":

    > But when you subtract all of our warped assumption, you’re left
    > with just youth. Youth is just a quality any human can have,
    > potentially at any age. Youth is a freshness and a beauty and form
    > of strength that can be shared with another human in exchange for
    > wisdom and strength of other varieties. We forget that a fifteen
    > year old is as much a complete human as a fifty year old because
    > society has been built in order to let the old dominate, exploit
    > and indoctrinate the young according to the tenets of the child /
    > adult dichotomy. But as a complete human, they deserve the same
    > rights, respect and liberty to which anything born with humanity
    > is heir.

[existential risk]: http://www.nickbeckstead.com/research

I am also currently a second-year student at University of Washington.

# Contact

My email address is [riceissa@gmail.com][email].  See [Contact]() for
more options and account names I use on various websites.

[email]: mailto:riceissa@gmail.com

# Photo

I have [a photo](identification-photo.jpg) you can use to identify me.

# Name

See [How should I properly pronounce your name?]() for information about
my name.