technology2026 alpha males make themselves plural the old fashioned way
Professor Oak's voice appearing in my head as if he were Professor X when I'm trying to use a fishing rod in a fossil musem: "There's a time and place for everything, but not now"
Me: Wow, did I just get ChatGPT in my head?
Does anyone else hear a little voice in your head that talks about the things you're doing and gives you hints about what to do next?
Yes. Not everyone has an internal monologue but also having one isn't necessarily a bad thing. Brains just brain how they brain
I ate Clippy to consume his power
I do not, it genuinely worries me when other people say they do.
I have no outside basis to believe it, but I believe this anyway: It's a learned behavior. I don't think it's something you should worry about, plenty of people don't. You still have the same interiority as everyone else. Just never fell into that pattern of behavior.
Meditation often talks about "quieting" the inner monologue. I've tried sporadically (whenever I actually remember it, really) and for me it feels... like un-clenching a muscle that you've held clenched all your life. It's at once relaxing and difficult, because that "muscle" will just clench back up - the monologue starts rambling - at the first moment I stop actively trying to "quiet" it. I get the sense that if I stuck to it and was stubborn, I'd eventually be able to quiet it without actively trying.
Your ability to also tell that voice "but of course that's ridiculous for a large number of reasons" is the governor that prevents the voice from being a problem in most people who do have an inner monologue. When someone thinks their inner monologue is something else's voice, like a diety, that's when it becomes a problem because it removes personal agency while elevating the significance or validity of their thoughts.
An internal monologue is a normative experience. We really do live like this, for better or worse.
Does anyone else use Hexbear in their head?
Sometimes I think of something I'd want to post but instead of posting it I just imagine what the replies would be.
This is why badposting is for. Let your posts fly free
If I did that I'd be banned, I have the most unhinged badpost pulsions
Sometimes when my life gets confusing I whisper to myself beanis treatlerite outdoor cats and then everything makes sense
You can just say ppb, this is taking forever
Oh fuck I had a good idea for a bad post yesterday and didn't post it
Please don't let the term "thinking" get replaced by "consulting your internal LLM".
This is literally the same dynamic as praying to god in Abrahamic faiths.
I have to believe this is just someone taking the piss
for my own sanity, if nothing else
high quality shit post
recreating the prehistoric bicameral mind from first principles
Zeus, are we cooked?
primeval lizard brain: yes. you've never been so cooked as you are now. freak the fuck out and run into the wilds and never return.
Still applies today though, dunnit?
Don’t make AI into a literal god challenge
People discovering thinking in 2026
Must be nice not to have any thoughts in your head.
I would literally prefer tricking myself into believing in Koishi from touhou than ever consulting an LLM
I had a stroke trying to parse this post title
You spent too many tokens and got into a loop on your brainGPT? Did it go over budget on the token allowance?
So, like, poe's law, but, do some people just not know about thinking? I know some folks don't have an internal monologue, but they can still ideate.
There are a number of people who have no inner monologue, so it stands to reason that other people don't realize what someone is talking about when they say they're thinking.
