I study linguistics at university, but I'm a philosopher at heart. I like science and study many of them out of sheer curiosity, and also contribute to the fields from time to time - I'm a polymath. I like drinking. I am brutally honest. I am allergic to obvious irrationality. My outlook is something like: Hopeful misanthropic realist. I'm a wannabe Francis Galton and Arthur Jensen, which naturally means that I'm a huge fan of differential psychology, behavioral genetics, and stuff like that. :).

Very short edition: I study linguistics at Aarhus University. On the side I study a broad collection of sciences and academic fields, and engage in various other intellectual projects. I'm active in the Danish Pirate Party (board of directors).

Very fast reading. I have compared myself with other people at a similar intelligence level, and I read much faster than them. Lots of practice. :)

Remembering stuff from reading it years ago.

Formalizing arguments. Clear and sharp thinking.

Puns. Especially lame and bad ones.

Being an asshole. (A mild case of Gregory House)

Controversial opinions, assertiveness, immense knowledge of all kinds of stuff, rapid talking, brutal honesty, weird clothes.

Books. Lots. I made a profile at Goodreads. Currently at 150ish nonfiction books not including pre-high school school books. I don't generally read fiction, but when I do, it's usually sci-fi (say, something like Heinlein's Time Enough for Love) or meta-humor (Happiness was very funny!). The Goodreads profile underestimates the number because it doesn't include a host of obscure Danish books I read...

Films. Last time I checked, I had rated 563 films on IMDB (list is public). Add to that the films I did see but forgot to rate. Favorites are talking films with good dialogue such as: Conversations with other Women (2005), Interstate 60 (2002), 12 Angry Men (1957), Whatever Works (2009), Jeux d'enfants (2003), The Princess Bride (1987).

Music. In short, a lot of different stuff, but especially old rock music (think Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones) and modern electronic music (dubstep, tech house, minimal), and lots of instrumental music (because it is good for reading, lyrics interferes with my concentration). Lastfm profile.

As someone else wrote, it is of little importance whether one has similar tastes in film and music. Books, probably pretty important. Although I can live with people that read fiction. :P

Smart people adapt. There are no things besides the essential things to living that I could not do without. Obviously, that is something like: oxygen, food, water, warmth/heat, shelter.

Interpreting this as simply things that I would very much like not to lose: internet, computers, Wikipedia, alcohol, good company. (In no particular order.)

How to improve the world by changing things in various ways. Being a politician, this is actually important.

Contemplating what to write about next, and read. I read very much, and pretty much only nonfiction.

More specifically...

I have three blogs, which I don't use that much anymore. In Danish, English, and Esperanto.

I run an academic-ish site about drug legalization legaliser.nu. I am a strong proponent of legalizing and regulating all drugs. The drug war is way more harmful than are the drugs, and much of the harm of the drugs is directly caused by the current prohibition policies. Think about what alcohol prohibition did for alcohol and society in the US. The same it does for other drugs and society in countries all over the world today.

I run an academic site about reforming the Danish orthography lyddansk.dk. Basically, the Danish spelling system is horrible and is badly in need of a reform. The number system is also fucked up. So my interests are definitely spelling reform and language reform.

I also have a bunch of smaller projects some ongoing, some completed, see the main site for details.

Some of my other interests. I have tried to group them a bit by relatedness.

Improving humans: transhumanism, eugenics of the non-forced kind/liberal. Especially embryo selection, which is the act of extracting a number of eggs from the female. Mating them in vitro with sperm from the desired male. Then separating the fertilized eggs, and letting them divide once or twice. Then freezing them and taking out one of the cells for genetic testing. Do this for a large number of cells (say, 100). Select the cells with the best genes (for health, intelligence, attractiveness), and implant it in the female. No government coercion is necessary for this because parents really do want healthy, smart, attractive children already. Indeed, that is the whole idea behind discriminating between potential mates...

Other linguistic stuff: constructed languages, Esperanto (obvious).

Understanding humans: evolutionary psychology, intelligence research/IQ research/psychometrics, cognitive epidemiology, personality research, human nature. Humans are animals exactly like the other animals, and they evolved as well to fit their environment. This environment has included other humans for a long time, so naturally humans have cooperation and hostility adaptions, and a bunch of adaptions related to the mating game. The obvious ones being women's relative preference for high status+rich males, and males relative preference for beautiful+young females.

Politics/improving society: meritocracy/political theory, nuclear energy, evidence-based policy, copyright policy, patent policy, justice policy(not the right term?), internet policy, sex trade/sex work (I'm pro-legalization) and in general public policy. Lots of other stuff. Overall I'm something of a socioliberal (use the market for efficiency, regulate to correct for market failures), meritocratic democrat (decisions should be made by intelligent, informed peers in some kind of democratic way, e.g. liquid democracy with a libertarian social policy bent (legalizing a lot of things currently illegal for various health or morality 'reasons').

"I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal? You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away? I can't follow the logic on that one at all! Of all the things you can do, giving someone an orgasm is hardly the worst thing in the world. In the army they give you a medal for spraying napalm on people! In civilian life you go to jail for giving someone an orgasm! Maybe I'm not supposed to understand it..." (George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001))

Philosophy stuff: logic, formal logic, modal logic, non-standard logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics. I haven't been too interested in this for some time, especially after reading and agreeing with Paul Graham about philosophy. While philosophy can be useful, armchair philosophy is generally useless and in excessive amounts even harmful to one's understanding of the world. One will not learn how the brain works if one sits around reading, say, phenomenology all day.

Various other science stuff: physics, biology, evolutionary biology (I started studying this because I wanted to know why the creationists were wrong), psychology, metascience/scientometrics.

Computer stuff: programming, python, data mining. I like to do data mining studies of stuff... Like studying the sex ratio of TED speakers (73% male), or the spammability of skills in DOTA2 and LOL (much more spammable in LOL).

Very likely drunk somewhere close to the university, likely a friday bar. I particularly like the physic's bar. In other words, in Aarhus at or near the university. I like drinking. Living is too boring without alcohol once in a while. I bore easily.

I'm not a very private person and I very rarely lie. Obviously, I would like that other people were also like this but only a few are. I'm also very direct. If you ask questions, it is very likely that you will get an honest answer. Beware that you may not like the answer received, and for this reason, I sometimes ask people if they REALLY want my answer or not.

Basic strategy: If you like me and you think that there is a good chance that I will like you. Chances increase proportionally with how similar we are. Which means that if you are a creationist, firm believer in astrology, anti-rationalist or indifferent to knowledge, gender/third wave/neo- feminist, or just someone that likes fluffy thinking in general (continental philosophy, socialconstructivism, psychoanalysis, ...), then it will almost certainly not work. Basically, you should like science and dislike pseudo-science and religious crap. You should also be smart and pretty, although I respond to almost everyone. Basically, I only not respond to trolls and I might even respond to those anyway, just for some good counter-trolling. :D

polyamory is a plus. It will never work in a long-term sexual exclusive relationship (as in, I will cheat sooner or later). There are too many nice women for that to work. I like variety. :)

Of course, if you think we would get along for non-dating purposes, feel free to write me. I can always use more interesting people to talk with! :)