Account names

The following table lists the account names I use on various websites. It can be used as an authoritative guide of my online presence; if you are ever unsure if an account on a website is me, you can check this table. (However, there might be a bit of a lag between when I sign up for a service and when I add it to this table.)

As with software, I like to sign up for a lot of online services to try them out, even though I know I won’t continue using most of them.

I usually use “riceissa” on most sites. This is a historical accident: when I tried to sign up for my Gmail account, “issarice” was already taken, so I picked “riceissa” instead. Since then, I’ve sort of standardized on “riceissa” for most services, although I also use “issarice”.

The “current activity” column describes how much I use the service now (the past six months, say). The numbers mean:

• 0: No activity or close to no activity (not even signed in, hardly check the site).
• 1: Use around once per month.
• 2: More than once per week.

The “total activity” column describes how much I have used the service across all time. This is an easier measure to score higher on, because it just requires that at some point in time I used a service moderately/regularly, or that I have used the service on and off over a long period of time. The numbers mean:

• 0: No activity or close to no activity.
• 1: A small to moderate amount of activity.
• 2: More than a moderate amount of activity.

For activity columns, the first number is “as consumer” and the second is “as producer”.

Regarding “forecasting” as a subject area versus “prediction” as a service type, at the moment they seem identical, but e.g. if a wiki about forecasting emerged, it would have a “forecasting” subject area but a “wiki” service type.

The “sphere” column says something about my motivation for caring about the service or how I came to know about the service in the first place. For instance, the Machine Learning Subwiki has “Vipul Naik” as its sphere rather than “Technology” because my account creation on that wiki was a direct result of being in contact with Vipul Naik rather than my general interest in technology.

The “EA/R” sphere refers to the effective altruism and rationality communities.

Noting some accounts I have seen out in the wild that I do not own:

• I never owned the account issarice on twitter. This was some other person with apparently the same name as me, who had their twitter account suspended for some reason.
• I am not issarice or issa.rice on Facebook. I think this is the same person who owned the twitter account.
• I do not have a Twitch account. In particular, both RiceIssa and issarice on Twitch are not me.
• I am not issarice on GitHub. I don’t know the person who owns this account or why they chose this username.

With JavaScript enabled, it is possible to sort the table by each column.

You can also view the table below as a spreadsheet here.

If you like tables like these, you might enjoy looking at the contract work I’ve done for Vipul Naik.