Just "infinitely curious individual" is a bookworm. Hacker would also like to tinker with the rules underlying the systems to see how things might break. So bookworm + tinkering + wants to understand complex systems (hackers call it "to grok"). Systems - not only computer systems, also biological, physical and any kind of complex assemblages of rules.

I personally prefer "infinitely creative individual", with the non-artsy definition of creative: to create something

Still not specific enough and doesn't evoke hackers. I consider myself a hacker but I don't consider myself "infinitely" creative, just creative in technical areas. So maybe technically creative individual? But those are more like Makers.

No matter how you define "hacker", "argues about the definition of 'hacker'" certainly should be included :)

That's always been my interpretation of it! I would use the term "insatiably curious" to describe it to people.

thats a good take . i would add “ a person that wants to understand how thinks work to manipulate them”

'hacking' is commonly defined as "using tools for something else than their initial purpose".