Dream: Ingress Answer – Yuxi on the Wired

in the Chrome

right click brings up a new feature panel (something like “Ingress Answer”). Right below it, there was another panel saying something like “Experimental: Doc here”.

it opens the Chrome console with a long markdown document within it.

It was too long to read in one go. If I tried, I would lose concentration and forget about it,

so I copied it into Logseq to read it via text-manipulation. But it got the error of “This textblock is too long, read-only mode is enabled”.

And then

So I realized I had to act quickly. There is another world, I knew. I just had to make sure it receives the message. So I opened Gmail and sent the entire textblock to my other email address.

Then I woke up and realized this is what LLMs do all the time.

I have been trying to think more like LLMs, to understand them better. I feel like this dream explains a lot of what the “hallucination” is supposed to be. I knew there is another world, and that if I just save the text in email inbox, the other world would not see it, but somehow I thought that if I send it to another email inbox, the other world would receive it. Is this how LLMs use their tools?

When o3 owes you a straight answer, when R1 does a proof by (っ◔◡◔)っ 🎀 imagination 🎀, it is not lying. Truth and lies and even bullshit does not work when dealing with these textual structures. There is no outside-text. This is not a call for postmodernists, too vague to make falsifiable predictions, and too floppy to make text automatons with gears that really mesh and turn.

But this is still a serious problem. Where is the new On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense?

Also, to experience it yourself, try the quick Chrome extension o3 wrote up just for this occasion.

--- title: "Dream: Ingress Answer" author: "Yuxi Liu" date: "2025-06-29" date-modified: "2025-06-29" categories: [fun, art, slice-of-other-life] format: html: code-fold: true toc: true resources: - "figure/**" - "code/**" description: "Dream about a new feature in Chrome which helped me understand LLMs a bit better." image: "figure/6.png" status: "finished" confidence: "log" importance: 0 --- {{< include../../../utils/blog_utils/_macros.tex >}} in the Chrome ![](figure/1.png) right click brings up a new feature panel (something like "Ingress Answer"). Right below it, there was another panel saying something like "Experimental: Doc here". ![](figure/2.png) it opens the Chrome console with a long markdown document within it. ![](figure/3.png) It was too long to read in one go. If I tried, I would lose concentration and forget about it, ![](figure/4.png) so I copied it into Logseq to read it via text-manipulation. But it got the error of "This textblock is too long, read-only mode is enabled". ![](figure/5.png) And then ![](figure/6.png) So I realized I had to act quickly. There is another world, I knew. I just had to make sure it receives the message. So I opened Gmail and sent the entire textblock to my other email address. ![](figure/7.png) Then I woke up and realized this is what LLMs do all the time. ---- I have been trying to think more like LLMs, to understand them better. I feel like this dream explains a lot of what the "hallucination" is supposed to be. I knew there is another world, and that if I just save the text in email inbox, the other world would not see it, but somehow I thought that if I send it to *another* email inbox, the other world would receive it. Is this how LLMs use their tools? When o3 owes you a straight answer, when R1 does a proof by (っ◔◡◔)っ 🎀 imagination 🎀, it is not lying. Truth and lies and even bullshit does not work when dealing with these textual structures. There is no outside-text. This is not a call for postmodernists, too vague to make falsifiable predictions, and too floppy to make text automatons with gears that really mesh and turn. ![](figure/divine_light_servered_claude.jpeg) But this is still a serious problem. Where is the new [*On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Truth_and_Lies_in_a_Nonmoral_Sense)? Also, to experience it yourself, try the quick [Chrome extension](https://github.com/yuxi-liu-wired/webdev-experiments/tree/main/ingress-answer) o3 wrote up just for this occasion.