My memory is generally worse, though I’ll still remember broadstrokes.
I’m unsure what multitasking would look like outside of certain time-pressured jobs. I think I do not usually multitask, regardless of mental state. But it also looks like other people are like this, too?
I’d suspect that multitasking should not be made much worse by going on autopilot (beyond the way that individual tasks are), as task-switching is already going to require dumping my working memory. I’d be slower at each step, though, and so if the reason why I’m multitasking is because I need to attend to multiple types of events that need to be processed quickly, then I’d expect to be much worse.
I mean, if your autopilot is like when I tell Claude to spawn a background subagent, then you should be able to do something else at the same time. Can you?
I seem to basically have one verbal ‘stream’, so that I mostly cannot think in words while talking or think in words about two different things. If talking about something that I know werl and have talked about before, I will sometimes find myself doing a little bit of accessory planning (sometimes even in words!) while my mouth moves in coherent ways, but I sorta feel like if I focused on it that the spell would break. It’s an interesting question, though, so I’ll try to notice next time.
I can walk and talk, or drive and talk, easily. The only examples that come to mind of me talking and visualizing were times where I was describing what I was visualizing or reporting a conclusion from my visual thinking, as opposed to talking about something else.
I think my autopilot thinking is more like if Claude only had a context window spanning a dozen tokens.
How does autopilot interact with multitasking for you? Do you remember what you did on autopilot?
My memory is generally worse, though I’ll still remember broadstrokes.
I’m unsure what multitasking would look like outside of certain time-pressured jobs. I think I do not usually multitask, regardless of mental state. But it also looks like other people are like this, too?
I’d suspect that multitasking should not be made much worse by going on autopilot (beyond the way that individual tasks are), as task-switching is already going to require dumping my working memory. I’d be slower at each step, though, and so if the reason why I’m multitasking is because I need to attend to multiple types of events that need to be processed quickly, then I’d expect to be much worse.
I mean, if your autopilot is like when I tell Claude to spawn a background subagent, then you should be able to do something else at the same time. Can you?
I seem to basically have one verbal ‘stream’, so that I mostly cannot think in words while talking or think in words about two different things. If talking about something that I know werl and have talked about before, I will sometimes find myself doing a little bit of accessory planning (sometimes even in words!) while my mouth moves in coherent ways, but I sorta feel like if I focused on it that the spell would break. It’s an interesting question, though, so I’ll try to notice next time.
I can walk and talk, or drive and talk, easily. The only examples that come to mind of me talking and visualizing were times where I was describing what I was visualizing or reporting a conclusion from my visual thinking, as opposed to talking about something else.
I think my autopilot thinking is more like if Claude only had a context window spanning a dozen tokens.