I think it does have a human analog, in that sometimes a person will rave about a book or article that they read that happened to perfectly crystallize something for them, while not being that interesting to many others.
But LLM writing is produced in conversation, so get a human to produce the same type of writing you’d need a conversation with:
1. Someone who pays a lot of attention to what you in particular are saying 2. Them both a. reflecting back your words and b. elaborating on them 3. This being a text chat (so you can copy and share their answer to others) and it also being socially okay to do that
You can get the combination of 1 and 2a with a therapist or someone good at reflective listening. I don’t know if you’ve ever explicitly practiced reflective listening, but it often has exactly this kind of effect on people. You repeat some of the people’s own words back to them or slightly rephrase them, and many people feel deeply heard and listened to.
But a therapist will usually try to keep the focus on the person, so they’ll try to keep their responses brief rather than elaborating on the reflections like an LLM does. When someone does elaborate, the human analog might be something like a really good brainstorming session, where you keep vibing off each other’s ideas. Or talking to someone very knowledgeable about a particular field, who can immediately draw out relevant connections to what you’re saying.
In any case, the resulting output is then a conversation between the two of you. And either it’s a spoken conversation that leaves no shareable artifact, or it’s a text conversation that feels really good and meaningful to one of the participants but would feel weird to share with other people.
I think it does have a human analog, in that sometimes a person will rave about a book or article that they read that happened to perfectly crystallize something for them, while not being that interesting to many others.
But LLM writing is produced in conversation, so get a human to produce the same type of writing you’d need a conversation with:
1. Someone who pays a lot of attention to what you in particular are saying
2. Them both a. reflecting back your words and b. elaborating on them
3. This being a text chat (so you can copy and share their answer to others) and it also being socially okay to do that
You can get the combination of 1 and 2a with a therapist or someone good at reflective listening. I don’t know if you’ve ever explicitly practiced reflective listening, but it often has exactly this kind of effect on people. You repeat some of the people’s own words back to them or slightly rephrase them, and many people feel deeply heard and listened to.
But a therapist will usually try to keep the focus on the person, so they’ll try to keep their responses brief rather than elaborating on the reflections like an LLM does. When someone does elaborate, the human analog might be something like a really good brainstorming session, where you keep vibing off each other’s ideas. Or talking to someone very knowledgeable about a particular field, who can immediately draw out relevant connections to what you’re saying.
In any case, the resulting output is then a conversation between the two of you. And either it’s a spoken conversation that leaves no shareable artifact, or it’s a text conversation that feels really good and meaningful to one of the participants but would feel weird to share with other people.