Hello, my name is Baeo. Last summer, while looking for information on Dual N-back, I came across gwern's FAQ on the subject. I noticed that he had been leaving a lot of links to LessWrong, but I didn't look too much into it at first. Eventually, after another blogger I follow recommended the sequences, I decided that they were at least worth looking into. I started to read the sequences and I was impressed with what I read. As it stands now, I've gotten through the core sequences but other work has sucked up enough of my time that my effort to get through the other sequences (Quantum Mechanics, etc) has stalled.

A few months ago, I began to attend the Berkeley LessWrong meetup. If you live in the area, stop by. It's usually a lot of fun. Participation in this motivated me to actually go through the trouble of creating a LessWrong account a few days ago. I've gotten one friend to start reading the LessWrong sequences and three or four friends to start reading HPMOR (it really is excellent for introducing people to the ideas).

As it stands now, I'm just a high school student, so I don't have too much choice over what I study, but an electrical engineering or CS degree with a lot of math and physics courses to supplement it seems to be a likely path for me once I go off to college. I've been programming in my spare time for 5 or so years now (functional programming for almost 2 years). I feel like I'm a pretty typical LessWrong user in most respects: atheist, libertarian leaning, INTx, sci-fi fan, etc. I don't have much else to say at the moment, except that I really have barely scratched the surface of the space of human knowledge and I would like to thank this site for quite a bit of what I've done.