progressive thought refinement is a great way to use AI, i do this a lot

progressive thought refinement is a great way to use AI, i do this a lot

1. type long jumbled thoughts
2. AI searches unrealistically hard to make sense of anything, rubber duck’s back to you
3. dive deeper into angles that make sense

end up with much more coherence

sycophancy is critical though

some: good, it lets you explore an idea

a lot: catastrophic, it leads you into dead ends

there’s this social angle that if it wasn’t sycophantic at all, it would shut down an idea before it bloomed enough to become real