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Continuity — LessWrong

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I left China at the age of four. My memories of those first four years are scattered impressions: a three-leaf clover I chowed down on while Mom’s back was turned, the smell of a revolting herbal remedy, the time an older girl scratched me on the cheek in daycare. We went back to visit every several years. The summer before college, I visited my birthplace, Chengdu, to see my grandparents. At some point, we had dinner with a larger group of family friends. Two of the children at that party, as it happened, had been my best friends in day care. They remembered me. They remembered the daycare we went to, and the street it was on, and the ways our parents were connected. They told me about the group of boys who’d roughly all grown up together: one who excelled in school and was going to Peking University, another who went too deep into League of Legends, another who was currently obsessed with The Three Body Problem. They were so warm, inviting me back home like an old friend who’d always

x Continuity — LessWrong World Modeling Frontpage 43 Continuity by alkjash 24th Nov 2025 Linkpost for radimentary.wordpress.com 6 min read 0 43 I left China at the age of four. My memories of those first four years are scattered impressions: a three-leaf clover I chowed down on while Mom’s back was turned, the smell of a revolting herbal remedy, the time an older girl scratched me on the cheek in daycare. We went back to visit every several years. The summer before college, I visited my birthplace, Chengdu, to see my grandparents. At some point, we had dinner with a larger group of family frie

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