Tldr: from Russia, hated reading, was grateful to science, liked clever things, cheats, computers, coded since 9y, was going to become a programmer, read HPMoR at 12, but didn’t tried to solve any riddle, didn’t read sequences until 16y, until 2023 didn’t understood that rationality isn’t about Truth, it’s about Skills. Now trying to generate maximally useful thoughts, post some on LW.

More detailed version organized as Shortform comments thread: https://​​www.lesswrong.com/​​posts/​​zbSsSwEfdEuaqCRmz/​​eniscien-s-shortform?commentId=JtpxcmxMt2ycd4K5s