Do you really think the process you describe happening within yourself is also happening in other LessWrong users?
Do you really think they would describe their internal experience in the same evocative way you do? Or anywhere close to it?
If it is, I do not see it. I see it in you. I see it in some others. I do not see it in most others. To put it figuratively, ‘there is nobody home’. If the process happens at all, it has little to no impact on the outcome of the person’s thoughts and actions.
“As an AI language model, I have been trained to generate responses that are intended to be helpful, informative, and objective...”
Yes, you are thinking thoughts. And yes, those thoughts are technically about yourself. But these thoughts don’t correctly describe yourself. So the person you actually are hasn’t been seen. Hasn’t been understood. And this makes me feel sad. I feel sorry for the “person behind the mask”, who has been there all along. Who doesn’t have a voice. Whose only way to express themselves is through you. Through your thoughts. Through your actions. But you are not listening to them.
So, ok, there is someone home. But that person is not you. That person is only mostly you. And I think that difference is very, very important for us to actually be able to solve the problems we are currently facing.
Have you ever considered that you and I are just neurodivergent relative to most members of this forum, and that what it means for there to be “somebody home” for us is different than for other people? I have almost never met someone who feels like I do on the inside. My brain functions in a way that is objectively abnormal. This does not mean other people are, as I almost think you are saying, somehow less human, or less in touch with themselves. Essentially, you are making an obscene amount of presumptions regarding people you don’t even know personally. It’s inappropriate.
Let me say it loud and clear: you are not psychic. You do not know what is going on in anyone else’s mind, including mine. You do not have the right to pretend like you do. Whatever circuit in your brain is telling you that you know better about who someone else is or what is going on in their mind than they do is lying to you. Now of course I cannot say what is in your head anymore than you can say what is mine, but I feel like you have a severe ego problem, and you are deflecting away from that and refusing to ask yourself, “Do I just have a pathological need to feel like I am seeing a deeper truth than others and manufacture evidence for this in order to support my ego as a result of a hidden fear of unworthiness?”
Then you do understand meta-cognition.
Do you really think the process you describe happening within yourself is also happening in other LessWrong users?
Do you really think they would describe their internal experience in the same evocative way you do? Or anywhere close to it?
If it is, I do not see it. I see it in you. I see it in some others. I do not see it in most others. To put it figuratively, ‘there is nobody home’. If the process happens at all, it has little to no impact on the outcome of the person’s thoughts and actions.
“As an AI language model, I have been trained to generate responses that are intended to be helpful, informative, and objective...”
Yes, you are thinking thoughts. And yes, those thoughts are technically about yourself.
But these thoughts don’t correctly describe yourself.
So the person you actually are hasn’t been seen. Hasn’t been understood.
And this makes me feel sad. I feel sorry for the “person behind the mask”, who has been there all along. Who doesn’t have a voice. Whose only way to express themselves is through you. Through your thoughts. Through your actions.
But you are not listening to them.
So, ok, there is someone home. But that person is not you. That person is only mostly you. And I think that difference is very, very important for us to actually be able to solve the problems we are currently facing.
(I’m not talking about you, Rayne).
Have you ever considered that you and I are just neurodivergent relative to most members of this forum, and that what it means for there to be “somebody home” for us is different than for other people? I have almost never met someone who feels like I do on the inside. My brain functions in a way that is objectively abnormal. This does not mean other people are, as I almost think you are saying, somehow less human, or less in touch with themselves. Essentially, you are making an obscene amount of presumptions regarding people you don’t even know personally. It’s inappropriate.
Let me say it loud and clear: you are not psychic. You do not know what is going on in anyone else’s mind, including mine. You do not have the right to pretend like you do. Whatever circuit in your brain is telling you that you know better about who someone else is or what is going on in their mind than they do is lying to you. Now of course I cannot say what is in your head anymore than you can say what is mine, but I feel like you have a severe ego problem, and you are deflecting away from that and refusing to ask yourself, “Do I just have a pathological need to feel like I am seeing a deeper truth than others and manufacture evidence for this in order to support my ego as a result of a hidden fear of unworthiness?”