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I know I am in the minority out there but when I do math, calculus, diff eq, whatever, the answer just comes to me. There's no internal dialogue, the answer jus
by zehaeva 4y ago
I know I am in the minority out there but when I do math, calculus, diff eq, whatever, the answer just comes to me. There's no internal dialogue, the answer just, for the lack of a better phrase, rises from the deep and is known to me.
When I am in an discussion I will look up and off the my left when I am thinking, but no words are happening in my "inner dialogue", it's just nothing and then I start speaking whatever I paused for.
Similar things happen to me while I am programming at work, I stare at the problem and the answer just comes.
- exitb 4y agoI think that math and programming may be the odd exceptions, as they employ their own language-like constructs. There might be a misconception in the name of LLMs - we say that they’re language models, but really they’re token models, some of which may be human language words, while others may represent other things. As for the discussions, I agree that I don’t have a distinct narrative in my mind during one, but I also noticed that I don’t really know what exactly I’m going to say when I start a response. So it also feels like the act of responding is actually heavily involved in creating the response, rather than just putting it into words. BTW, I’ve always wondered if people really think differently, or we just describe it in different ways. I guess we’ll never really know.