After reading my last set of memories, a friend said that there was a theme of rule-breaking that he wanted me to bring out more. I said I wasn't sure what he meant. Then I read it back, and every single memory included either a student getting expelled, a teacher getting fired, me committing a crime, or some other rule being broken.

So, to continue the theme, here are two more that I forgot.

A girlfriend of mine would sing with the opera singers. She would also smoke cigarettes and weed literally every day. I'd go out into the city with her where she'd smoke with her fellow singers. They'd be in a back alley smoking, talking shit about people they didn't like. Once in a while, one of them would recall a song they liked, and start singing. Then all of them would break out into song, perfectly harmonized with each other, until the cigarettes would kick in, and they'd all end up coughing.

The register of her voice dropped over the years, due to singing.

She was kind of crazy and lied to me all the time about lots of crazy stories. She told me she'd had a stillbirth child. She told me she'd had sex with a guy with two penises. She told me that her father knew a lot of semi-famous pedophiles. She told me she had terminal cancer, and had me touch a bump on her head that she said was the cancer. I found this all a somewhat disorienting experience. Somehow I was not traumatized by this? It just, all sounded like the genre of "crazy things she'd say"? Importantly she was never especially upset about this. She was just plainly telling me stuff that happened to her. She wasn't freaking out, so I didn't either.

We eventually broke up when it wasn't as fun any more; I felt that I wanted to break up with her, and then she broke up with me, and then I felt like I'd not honored myself in being confident and done it first.

But it was really fun while it lasted.

One of my friends introduced me to LessWrong. In the cafeteria, he handed me the math problem at the top of An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem, for I was known to be Good At Math.

I got it wrong.

This was quite annoying, and so I proceeded to read the whole essay. Later on I downloaded an ePub of all of Eliezer's blogposts in chronological order, which I read every night for a few months (skipping the quantum mechanics and meta-ethics sequence).

Anyway, there's more to that, but I mostly want to cut to when he found Gw...

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