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Re:Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) by tropicalfruit on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:55AM (#44948645)
70–90% of people have functional object impermanence, and at least 50% have no inner dialogue

no self awareness, no reflection. just impulse. me, me, me.

blasting music in public, talking at max volume, slamming doors. taking 20 mins to use an ATM when it takes me 30 seconds. and so on.

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Re:Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) by bsdz on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:20AM (#44949087)
> at least 50% have no inner dialogue

I'm not sure I trust this. A quick search finds a Psychology Today article about it along with a single reference. I lazily suspect the result is based on some type of questionnaire.

The way "chain of thought" is used in LLMs to improve reasoning demonstrates, to me at least, the value of capturing intermediate steps in some rich compressed structure. Nothing beats that than words and sentences (see them or hear them). A lot of ideas can't be captured with just photos alone imho.

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Re:Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) by keybored on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:06AM (#44949393)
A master Buddhist meditator deep in meditation might also have no inner dialogue.

I don’t really get the significance of this No Inner Dialogue meme.

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Re:Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) by aleksiy123 on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:51PM (#44954261)
The irony of this comment.
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