Chain of Thought for Humans

4 comments

• algoth146 minutes ago
  I wonder if the author is one of those people that doesn't have an audible inner monologue?
  • purplepatrick1 minute ago
    The author says they could narrate their own thought process out loud.<p>I couldn’t do that. I have no insight into my thought processes whatsoever. There are no semantic processes to witness. It’s complete crickets at all times…<p>My wife is the opposite - constant chatter in her head. And she can trace every thought exactly. (No idea how people like her can focus or even function!)
  • thanhhaimai6 minutes ago
    I&#x27;m not the OP, but I think everyone might have a different definition of what &quot;audible inner monologue&quot; mean.<p>For example, I don&#x27;t talk to myself in &quot;monologue&quot;. But I can close my eyes or stare at the screen and visualize the solutions. The words that I usually tell myself during that are &quot;what?&quot;, &quot;why?&quot;, &quot;strange!&quot;, &quot;really&quot;,... not a monologue or sentences.
  • idiotsecant42 minutes ago
    I am such a person and I&#x27;ve always done &#x27;chain of thought&#x27; in a notepad in order to think through complex things, well before LLMs were a thing. There are certainly tasks I can &#x27;one-shot&#x27; but I&#x27;ve learned from experience that for some problems that just results in me focusing on irrelevant things.
    • apt-apt-apt-apt3 minutes ago
      Curious whether the lack of audible inner monologue is a benefit for you?<p>I feel like I&#x27;m the opposite, where most of my thinking is done in inner English, which feels slow. I.e. as opposed to instantly realizing the result of deep subconscious processing or something, I usually go the slow language way, if you get what I mean.
• Waterluvian50 minutes ago
  <i>Witnessing</i> a candidate’s thought process is probably the most valuable part of the interview process for me. Nothing else comes close. Just let me listen&#x2F;watch you solve problems.
  • drivebyhooting10 minutes ago
    Verbalizing my thoughts as I try to solve a problem drops my IQ down by like 20 points at least.
• 1auralynn56 minutes ago
  We use this in my science education platform: we make students talk out loud about what they&#x27;re thinking. Not a chatbot, but guided inquiry that&#x27;s designed to make them actually mentally engage with what they&#x27;re seeing
• senectus130 minutes ago
  holy shit this would break my ability to think completely.<p>I think and chase alternate chains of thought <i>way faster</i> than i can speak.