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What's DFS? When I look closely at those sorts of imagined conversations, I almost always conclude that my attention has been misdirected by delusional egotism
by AlexCoventry 7y ago
What's DFS?
When I look closely at those sorts of imagined conversations, I almost always conclude that my attention has been misdirected by delusional egotism. I also find that letting them run tends to entrench the delusions, which I am better off without.
- lostcolony 7y agoDepth first search. Basically he's saying you're playing out each conversation to the end, then backing up to the last branch point and chasing it to the end, repeat until you've exhausted every possibility you can think of
- AlexCoventry 7y agoOh. That almost never works IME, though.
- yetihehe 7y agoIn my experience it typically doesn't work, but sometimes it can work and is good to keep your mind busy IF you have some free time. It's just rehearsing, essentially what dreams are, but in daytime and more controlled.
- lostcolony 7y agoIt doesn't work in the sense of predicting the conversation, but do it long enough, or, do it with iterative deepening, and even though you probably won't nail the specifics of how the conversation goes, it WILL frequently prepare you in broad strokes such that the actual conversation's twists and turns won't throw you, even if they do surprise you.