My experience was similar. I am a little older (early 30′s). Stumbled into a random lesswrong article when looking for something specific online. Then got really into the site just from “homepage shooting”. HPMOR came quite late in the day for me. Like you only half read “the sequences”. (Not anything as sensible as “the first half”, just turned them into swiss cheese from my homepage shooting).
My experience was similar. I am a little older (early 30′s). Stumbled into a random lesswrong article when looking for something specific online. Then got really into the site just from “homepage shooting”. HPMOR came quite late in the day for me. Like you only half read “the sequences”. (Not anything as sensible as “the first half”, just turned them into swiss cheese from my homepage shooting).