Meta thinkers who are curious could get stuck in the sycosocial hall of mirrors more easily than others.

· Bits and Bobs 8/4/25
  • Meta thinkers who are curious could get stuck in the sycosocial hall of mirrors more easily than others.
    • I randomly came across a Claude artifact produced by someone about multiple levels of emergence in complex systems.
    • At first it sounded fascinating, until I realized that it was mostly superficial gobbledygook.
    • I fear that I sound like this person, or will fall in the same gravity well of metaness that they do.
    • LLMs are amazing thinking partners for "caged tigers", but their sycosocial approach makes them inherently dangerous, allowing hyper curious people to follow a trail away from reality.[eb][ec]

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