We are social beings and want to be heard. We interpret the world and share our interpretations to see what sticks. If it sticks, maybe there is something of value to that interpretation? And so conversations are 99% repeated and recycled arguments but we still want to share and hear them as we are not a hive mind that would know what sticks and what not a priori. And to make things even worse, over time, things stick differently. The Overtone window slides. We have to update all these billions of brains one brain and one interpretation/meme at a time.

We would probably not need AI but only state of the art LLMs to get these feedback loops "offline". Imagine a local LLM that's trained with all of your follows conversations. It could anticipate individual reactions and even argue about them. Alice probably will give you a 🤝 and Bob might zap you. Carol will not react as she never chimes in on this topic.

I find this thought kind of creepy. Imagine writing something thoughtful, getting your feedback from the LLM and not sending it, being satisfied with or scared by the "fake" feedback.

I would still want such an assistant that runs locally and checks for grammar and style, too, cause why not? I think the result would be more engaging posts and if it was integrated in clients it could make for more engaging posts on a broad scale making a dent in nostr's adoption as a whole.

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I often wonder whether I would accept the findings of the local LLM discussion because I did not follow it closely. I wouldn’t own the thoughts, woudln’t I?

That local LLM could be open source and even link you to posts of Alice and Bob to back its claims. Of course this would be predictive for other human beings and thus no real replacement for the real interaction but it's not about accepting these as real. It's more about "What would Alice do?" thought experimentation.

We imagine social interactions before we act them out for the first time and an LLM can help with that I would say.

Ok, so it’s more about clues.

With acceptance I more meant the emotional attachment I have to my thoughts. I find them harder to accept if they are not mine. Could be the same with social cues.

Your thoughts would still be your thoughts. I would want such a tool to make sense of the hive mind. If I through this thought at my followers, what might come back? Now that tool could be tuned to go wild or be more conservative and I might agree with some of it or not but it should be inspiring in many instances. And as for the writing help, I'd keep it to grammar and spelling. It would help me get more creative with words as I often feel insecure on how to use lesser used expressions and swap them for simpler language to not say something stupid. With such an assistant I could experiment more. It surely could also help with mention suggestions or timing posts but I would not want it to guess my own writing.

I’d like especially to branch out on clues I wouldn’t think about. It would be kind of like a market maker for social interaction.