I’ve been following Gwern.net for a long time, and I was really curious when I found out this interview that kept him anonymous.

How does an hearing-impaired, introvert American grow up to be a polymath and a scholar?

The wikipedia editor, now full-time writer without a salary
got a lot farther by writing a lot and harder,
by being a lot smarter, by going down rabbitrabbitholesholes
by fourteen, they placed him in charge of wikipedia edits
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