Thinking slowly allows you to reason deeper.

That's why System 2 built out of System 1 (i.e. the reasoning models) works.

The longer you reason, the further from the base "vibes" of the memory you can get.

How far you can go is not just about time, but about how much reasoning computation can happen.^[yg]

You can argue that larger models, which go slower by default (or require more resources) can reason further away from the baseline.

But reasoning models move that scaling factor out of intrinsics of the model, to instead give open ended space to reason.