@ESYudkowsky oh to be more clear abt the mental illness connection- when i'm hypomanic my brain is making more tenuous connections, seeing faint (sometimes imagined) patterns.... my enthusiastic semi-coherent prompts in that mindset seem to get better results especially for poetry
@ESYudkowsky also i think causation goes both ways- engaging w a model that can grok those faint connections & respond in kind is a psychoactive experience?