This is manic gibberish, with or without LLM assistance.
I do not believe I am manic at the time. If, hypothetically, I am, then the state has become so persistent that I am not capable of noticing it; this is the default state of my cognition.
I did not use LLM assistance to write this post.
Personally, I am very much aware of my thoughts, and have no difficulty in having thoughts about my thoughts.
I believe you.
I am talking about having thoughts (and meta-thoughts) that are 99.9% correct, not just 90% correct. How would you tell the difference, if you never have experienced it? How can you tell whether your self-awareness is the most correct it could possibly be?
Nevertheless, if the words I already wrote did not land for you, I don’t expect these words to land for you either.
ETA: Or to be more charitable, it reads as a description of the inner world of its author. Try replacing “you” with “I” throughout.
I appreciate your feedback. It can be difficult for me to predict how my words will come across to other people who are not me. Upvoted.
[this comment I wrote feels bad in some ineffable way I can’t explain; nevertheless it feels computationally correct to post it rather than to delete it or to try to optimize it further]
I am talking about having thoughts (and meta-thoughts) that are 99.9% correct, not just 90% correct. How would you tell the difference, if you never have experienced it? How can you tell whether your self-awareness is the most correct it could possibly be?
One tells whether a thought is correct by comparing it with reality. 99.9% is easy for many thoughts. “I have just been to the gym.” I am way over 99.9% confident in that. “I am now at home.” Likewise. Most of my everyday thoughts about everyday things are like that. 99.9% is a fairly low bar.
Some concepts, ideas and words have “sharp edges” and are easy to think about precisely. Some don’t—they are nebulous and cloud-like, because reality is nebulous and cloud-like, when it comes to those concepts.
Some of the most important concepts to us are nebulous: ‘justice’. ‘fairness’. ‘alignment’. There things have ‘cloudy edges’, even if you can clearly see the concept itself (the solid part of it).
Some things, like proto-emotions and proto-thoughts do not have a solid part—you can only see them if have learned to see things within yourself which are barely perceptible.
So your answer, to me, is like trying to pass an eye exam by only reading the huge letters in the top row. “There are other rows? What rows? I do not see them.” Yes, thank you, that is exactly my point.
This is manic gibberish, with or without LLM assistance.
ETA: Or to be more charitable, it reads as a description of the inner world of its author. Try replacing “you” with “I” throughout.
Personally, I am very much aware of my thoughts, and have no difficulty in having thoughts about my thoughts.
I do not believe I am manic at the time. If, hypothetically, I am, then the state has become so persistent that I am not capable of noticing it; this is the default state of my cognition.
I did not use LLM assistance to write this post.
I believe you.
I am talking about having thoughts (and meta-thoughts) that are 99.9% correct, not just 90% correct. How would you tell the difference, if you never have experienced it? How can you tell whether your self-awareness is the most correct it could possibly be?
Nevertheless, if the words I already wrote did not land for you, I don’t expect these words to land for you either.
I appreciate your feedback. It can be difficult for me to predict how my words will come across to other people who are not me. Upvoted.
[this comment I wrote feels bad in some ineffable way I can’t explain; nevertheless it feels computationally correct to post it rather than to delete it or to try to optimize it further]
One tells whether a thought is correct by comparing it with reality. 99.9% is easy for many thoughts. “I have just been to the gym.” I am way over 99.9% confident in that. “I am now at home.” Likewise. Most of my everyday thoughts about everyday things are like that. 99.9% is a fairly low bar.
Yes, you are correct.
Let me zoom in on what I mean.
Some concepts, ideas and words have “sharp edges” and are easy to think about precisely. Some don’t—they are nebulous and cloud-like, because reality is nebulous and cloud-like, when it comes to those concepts.
Some of the most important concepts to us are nebulous: ‘justice’. ‘fairness’. ‘alignment’. There things have ‘cloudy edges’, even if you can clearly see the concept itself (the solid part of it).
Some things, like proto-emotions and proto-thoughts do not have a solid part—you can only see them if have learned to see things within yourself which are barely perceptible.
So your answer, to me, is like trying to pass an eye exam by only reading the huge letters in the top row. “There are other rows? What rows? I do not see them.” Yes, thank you, that is exactly my point.
I don’t think this explanation actually helps lol