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
When I first read it I thought in the way of “Hm, Daria vs Ferris, whom I am more sided with?”. Now I think… I am not sided with anyone. I am not picking any of limited options. No of them actually even remotely resemble my actual views. I just clearly see it. Whose don’t fit into any of these groups, and actually there is no reason for them to fit. There are actually exponentially more ways to conceptually organize relation to something than just a few groups. And there is no reason there ways of act should even remotely converge into those groups. Maybe, it means that now I finally actually understood the difference between Tribalism and Investigation.