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Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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Re: Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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I've thought about trying this cross-model as well. Have Claude generate something, have OpenAI check it, have Gemini check that check. Firing multiple of these in parallel.

There was a post here a week or so ago doing the "model checking model"-type thing with GH PRs IIRC that was interesting. I haven't had a chance to play with this idea yet.

Re: Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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This is really cool! One strategy I often use (which is much simpler and more limited than this), is to finish my message with: “Please do a round of thinking in tags, then a round of self-critique in tags, and then a final round of , before responding.” It works very well. Similarly just asking it to “find the 5 biggest issues with its proposal” works pretty good (the 5 forcing it to find something , even if it’s mo…

I always do "now again but put on your critical hat"

Re: Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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Agree 100%.

We should also not be calling a pointing device "a mouse" because it's not a small rodent, there aren't any actual windows inside a computer, and I haven't seen anyone balancing their laptop trying to surf the web.

Also smartphones are not actually smart and are only barely phones.

Re: Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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Sorry to join the pile-on, but can I just ask: In what way does a brain think that an Ai does not? And does the distinction apply from human brains down to fruit flies? Is it a property of embodiment? (I have suspected for years that consciousness isn't just emergent but specifically that it is NOTHING besides that. It's all about scale and large models are just starting climb the ladder. The ladder does not necessarily go up the same way as embodied thought though.)

Re: Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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I've done something similar for learning about a controversial topic. I ask it to act as if it is called Bob is a well informed supporter of one side (like Ukraine) and then act as if it is something named Alice who is a well informed supporter of another side (Russia) and they have to debate each other over a few prompts with a moderator named 'Sue'

Then after a few rounds of the debate where Sue asks a bunch of questions, I ask it to go to the judges - Mark, Phil, Sarah (and I add a few personalities to each of them... Sometimes I pretend they are famous moral philosophers) and then I have them each come up with a rubric and decide who is the winner.

Really fun, and helps me understand different sides of issues.

Re: Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just googled it and it looks like “n8n” is the name of the service. The op wasn’t abbreviating anything so I don’t think it’s the same phenomenon as what you’re describing.

Well, the service is doing the same thing though. The part I don't understand is that I assume n8n is short for "Nation" but literally every single person I've seen talk about it on YouTube (which is quite a lot) say "En Eight En" every time.

nation is too short for 8 - maybe navigation?
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