The API hands back a SUMMARY of reasoning, NOT the reasoning itself.
API 返回的是推理摘要,不是推理本身——这是最容易被忽视的细节。很多开发者假设「extended thinking」输出的就是模型实际的思维过程,但这是摘要,是事后生成的解释,而不是驱动行为的原始推理链。两者之间存在根本性的差距。
The API hands back a SUMMARY of reasoning, NOT the reasoning itself.
API 返回的是推理摘要,不是推理本身——这是最容易被忽视的细节。很多开发者假设「extended thinking」输出的就是模型实际的思维过程,但这是摘要,是事后生成的解释,而不是驱动行为的原始推理链。两者之间存在根本性的差距。
E. B. White (of "Strunk and White" fame) claimed that "writing is one way to go about thinking."
original source?
Isaac Asimov is said to have said "Writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers."
original source?
“Noteson paper, or on a computer screen [...] do not make contemporaryphysics or other kinds of intellectual endeavour easier, they make itpossible” is one of the key takeaways in a contemporary handbookof neuroscientists (Levy 2011, 290) Concluding the discussions inthis book, Levy writes: “In any case, no matter how internalprocesses are implemented, insofar as thinkers are genuinelyconcerned with what enables human beings to perform the
spectacular intellectual feats exhibited in science and other areas of systematic enquiry, as well as in the arts, they need to understand the extent to which the mind is reliant upon external scaffolding.” (Ibid.)
Does Neil Levy go into anything on orality with respect to this topic? Check: Levy, Neil. 2011. “Neuroethics and the Extended Mind.” In Judy Illes and B. J. Sahakian (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics, 285–94, Oxford University Press
Link this to P.M. Forni's question about how I think about mathematics and my answer relating to scaffolding or the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Link this to the 9/8 zettel quote from Luhmann about writing being thinking.
Compare the ideas of visual thinking (visualizations) and a visualization of one's thinking being instantiated in writing along with the Feynman quote about the writing being the thinking. What ways are they similar or different? Is there a gradation in which one subsumes the other?
What does Annie Murphy Paul have to say on this topic in The Extended Mind?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.html
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Joel Chan</span> in on Twitter: "@RoamBookClub next book? Extended Mind draws on distributed cognition, which is a powerful theoretical perspective for understanding #toolsforthought and #BASB" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>09/14/2021 10:01:01</time>)</cite></small>
Our efforts at education and training, as well as management and leadership, are aimed principally at promoting brain-bound thinking.
In many areas of human life including education and business, we limit ourselves too heavily by too exclusively promoting and preferring brain-bound thinking. If we could begin to re-center our external thinking as many oral and indigenous cultures have, we might be able to go further and farther.
How to Use These Ideas
I love that he's not only externalized his thoughts from the book as annotations/notes and then synthesized them into a longer essay, but he's further expanded and externalized them by thinking about how to put them to use!