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> Sincere question, because to me it feels like my brain is improvising word by word when typing out this sentence. I often delete and retype it until it feels
by mr_toad 4y ago
> Sincere question, because to me it feels like my brain is improvising word by word when typing out this sentence. I often delete and retype it until it feels right, but in the process of typing a single sentence, I'm just chaining words one after another the way they feel right.
That’s your conscious experience, but it doesn’t necessarily match what your subconscious mind has actually been doing. I’d hazard a guess that it’s thinking several moves ahead, like a good chess player. What you end up being consciously aware of is probably just the end product of multiple competing models - including ones that want to stop writing altogether and go do something else.
- efitz 4y agoI don’t generally think in individual words when writing. When I want to write a sentence, the first thing I think about is the idea that I want to convey. Then clusters of words start to come into my mind, as ways of expressing that idea, and I select and organize those fragments into a sentence, sometimes fine tuning words to avoid undesirable connotations or emphasize desired ones. Finally I glue the tuned fragments together with syntax and connecting words. Throughout the process I’m constantly iterating. I don’t think that what ChatGPT does is anything remotely like what I do to communicate. But maybe I’m weird.
- 8note 4y agoI usually start with point form notes, then fill in the gaps with paragraphs or words
- williamcotton 4y agoI definitely just start saying things or hammering out words and then figuring out midway that I need to reword the paragraph at some point or at least choose to sacrifice legibility for my own laziness. It reminds me of improvised music or comedy. You just gotta roll with it and build a structure out of what you’ve already said. Like 60s amphetamine beat poetry epics.