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A model that outputs its chain of thought in English is biased toward the kinds of problems or ideas English expresses well.
swyx · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“whatever like anyway so like the the language that you adopt affects your thinking and if you choose to output your chain of thought in english you are biasing towards whatever english solves i don't know what that sort of prior of english is”Play from 1:29:39Report a misattribution
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