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Interests
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Computers
I've always felt affection for the old time Unix hacker
community. (Perhaps it started when I was about 10 and
played the original
Adventure game on IBM 3270 terminals at IBM HQ while
waiting for my mother to finish work). One source of inspiration for me
is the Jargon file which
describes much of how true hackers think. The one and only true editor
is, of course,
Emacs.
Computers should be primarily for fun, so I play a lot
of computer games. The classics are
Nethack (my
first apotheosis was as a Tourist!) and, during undergraduate studies, I
played a lot of
MUD
(Multi User Dungeon, an early version of multi-user games over the
internet). Nowadays, I try to get time for the real-time strategy games
like Warcraft III and
Age of Mythology
and MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games) like
Everquest.
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Boardgames
I also play games offline. I like
strategic and diplomatic boardgames such as
Advanced Squad Leader,
Settlers of Cataan,
and the 18xx
series. I also play a mean game of Scrabble.
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Hiking
Although I'm really not into any kind of sports, I do
enjoy hiking in the Swedish mountains.
Some photos from when I climbed Kaskasatjåkka (2076 m)
in 1997:
View of a pass north-west of Kaskasatjåkka, that we had camped in
earlier.
Westward view overlooking the tip of Kaskasatjåkka and beyond that
Kaskasapakte (2043 m).
A break on the way.
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Philosophy
Ah, philosophy... I am always up for a good
philosophical debate. Here are some of my current philosophical
standpoints (to get you in the mood for a debate):
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Ontology: ontological materialism, atheist
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Epistemology: cohorentist (as per Willard v. O. Quine),
evolutionary epistemology
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Meta-ethics: subjective, non-universal, indexical
internalist
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Ethics: teleological (not theological), inspired by
Neo-Darwinism
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Politics: extreme free market economy, teleological
laws, pro-science, pro-animal experiments
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Some other philosophic favorites: David Hume, Tristan
Tempest, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, Friedrich Nietzsche
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