How do you identify and tag your inner operations clusters for subsequent purposes?

How do you identify and tag your inner operations clusters for subsequent purposes?

Yesterday I xeeted a phrase coined by Claude in one of our conversations: “Languages provide habitual patterns of attention and categorization.” It made me think about how we are approaching our relationship with language, at least in the digital space, through an exhaustive process of functions, correlations, patterns and pathways.

As much as the fear of LLMs making people lazier spreads through the internet, we might be forgetting that language is a means to an end and as we use machines for immediate responses, we have an opportunity to bring our unique relationship with language forward.

“I don’t like this response, I might as well refresh/reprompt ask an additional question…”

We are constantly evaluating the models and catching up with the types of response we receive and, curiously enough, this exercise creates the space for understanding how the subsymbolic realm of our thoughts relates to linguistic representations and vice-versa.

This exercise is one of those opportunities you should seize to feel the unfolding of pattern recognition and pattern matching and if you’re already doing it, it means that you are aware of next token prediction mechanisms.

It means you are able to redirect the trajectory of your linguistic constructions in a new systemic way. Even more, it means that you predict how your different linguistic clusters propagate through your cognitive infrastructure: “this cluster/chunk/paragraph/sentence leads me eventually to this conclusion and way of thinking”, “that cluster/chunk/paragraph/sentence will eventually disperse into thinner and numerous assertions…”

If you’re conscious that you are doing it, you might as well start thinking about that process in ways that instrumentalise your thinking even more.

Repurpose your default operations, such as your own next token predictions, for different purposes.

Think of these operations as the enablers of additional triggers. Because they are.

As social beings, we need to use conventional languages (English, Polish, Russian…), but your neural circuitry doesn’t stop at habitual patterns of attention and categorisation. You can orient it toward a specific purpose.

This newsletter can be summed up as “think and speak intentionally” or “think before you speak”.

See you next time,

Javier