so, like, while I’m still ambivalent-lean-no about sharing even mild insightful things in today’s world, since people have been pushing me to consider sharing things that just make people better off, I’ll at least say that I’ve had results where explaining brains properly to claude works pretty well. it takes some doing though and you need to explain some things that are so obvious as to not need mention, for human practitioners
I suppose an 80⁄20 version would be to just load some books and resources into an LLM’s context and tell it to be a good therapist who implements this stuff. I haven’t tried this myself though, and without the context I think Claude got some things wrong when it tried to recommend me exercises to do.
ehh, I put reasonably high probability that my paranoia about sharing things is just silly for most things besides specific veins of research I’m not even doing, and that I’ll end up sharing this thing? or maybe someone will figure it out reasonably quickly. ask me in like two weeks if I haven’t posted by then
Do you think with the right prompt, current LLMs could do what practitioners do?
so, like, while I’m still ambivalent-lean-no about sharing even mild insightful things in today’s world, since people have been pushing me to consider sharing things that just make people better off, I’ll at least say that I’ve had results where explaining brains properly to claude works pretty well. it takes some doing though and you need to explain some things that are so obvious as to not need mention, for human practitioners
Do you want to make Claude make an app that would do the thing? Might be pretty valuable if it works.
I suppose an 80⁄20 version would be to just load some books and resources into an LLM’s context and tell it to be a good therapist who implements this stuff. I haven’t tried this myself though, and without the context I think Claude got some things wrong when it tried to recommend me exercises to do.
ehh, I put reasonably high probability that my paranoia about sharing things is just silly for most things besides specific veins of research I’m not even doing, and that I’ll end up sharing this thing? or maybe someone will figure it out reasonably quickly. ask me in like two weeks if I haven’t posted by then
What does this mean?
Probably not for most people. I’ve found there’s something importantly load bearing about the presence of another person that is hard to articulate