Anyone else think of themselves as a GPT? When I write my brain just predicts good words that come next based on my experiences. No doubt in my mind AGI is coming.
I definitely see this in myself and others. We all know someone who is overfitted on some phrases, such that if you just supply the first word or two they are compelled to complete the phrase.
This is actually a sort of mental crutch which some eastern philosophy talks about. Which is interesting. It's not really seen as a positive thing in those traditions.
Rather than non-judgmentally listening to what people have to say, the mind jumps to some conclusion or as you said wants to complete a sentence out of habit or exposure some stimulus. Sort of monkey mind.
Agreed, but I think it’s an over-optimization that, as they say, comes from a good place. Some may aspire to 100% mindful attention at every moment, but I’m not at all sure that’s possible or desirable for all.
No, because when I write I'm trying to convey a concept. The words are a means to the end, they aren't the end. I'm taking your written words, transforming them into ideas in my head, processing those ideas and then producing my own ideas and outputting words to try and match those ideas.
I know that my ideas and my words aren't the same thing because I'm always at least slightly unhappy with how I'm expressing myself, which tells me there is a separation and dissonance between the two.
It sure seems like there are rote comments that could easily by LlM-generated here in this forum.
It’s not so bad. I think there are times when we devote a lot of thought to craft communications that share interesting things in novel ways. But most of the time we’re on autopilot and lower layers of cognition fill in the next most likely word, resulting in low effort comments scolding others for low effort comments, with no recognition of the humor in that.
