I do! Never seen that one before. It’s interesting. I wish I had an easy way to confirm its accuracy, but the more I think about it, the more of my real life experience I connect it to.
The recursion example rings especially true. It’s not just in writing that the ability to do recursion seems to have a hard g cutoff.
That greentext helps me understand other people so much better. I take the ability to distinguish ethical anachronisms for granted, and hadn’t realized how difficult it must be for other people.
I’ve noticed I can only concretely work at recursion layer 3 on a good day, and even when it works, it gives me a nasty headache and brain fog following.
Best example I can remember: I was doing a character voice (like, all day, for everything). Call this character-1. On that day, I read a story book aloud.
Yeesh, I’m getting a mild headache just composing this text.
When reading story books, I create, remember, and do voices for the characters who speak. Since I was in-character all day, I was doing those character voices as if character-1 was doing them. Call all the characters at this layer character-2. Taxing, but I can do that for about an hour at a stretch.
Then a character-2 starts in-story mimicking another character’s voice. So now I’m trying to figure out what it sounds like when my all-day character-1 does a voice for character-2 who is himself doing a voice for character-3.
I… managed it, but cue a sudden intense headache and complete mental exhaustion as if I’d been programming for 8 hours.
I do! Never seen that one before. It’s interesting. I wish I had an easy way to confirm its accuracy, but the more I think about it, the more of my real life experience I connect it to.
The recursion example rings especially true. It’s not just in writing that the ability to do recursion seems to have a hard g cutoff.
That greentext helps me understand other people so much better. I take the ability to distinguish ethical anachronisms for granted, and hadn’t realized how difficult it must be for other people.
I’ve noticed I can only concretely work at recursion layer 3 on a good day, and even when it works, it gives me a nasty headache and brain fog following.
Best example I can remember: I was doing a character voice (like, all day, for everything). Call this character-1. On that day, I read a story book aloud.
Yeesh, I’m getting a mild headache just composing this text.
When reading story books, I create, remember, and do voices for the characters who speak. Since I was in-character all day, I was doing those character voices as if character-1 was doing them. Call all the characters at this layer character-2. Taxing, but I can do that for about an hour at a stretch.
Then a character-2 starts in-story mimicking another character’s voice. So now I’m trying to figure out what it sounds like when my all-day character-1 does a voice for character-2 who is himself doing a voice for character-3.
I… managed it, but cue a sudden intense headache and complete mental exhaustion as if I’d been programming for 8 hours.
There’s another post in that series the first link missed. Look at the end of this one: link (sorry, low res image).