Editing Openai/693d13a2-0638-8007-9b25-4cd446434f52 (section)

=== User: can you elaborate? ===
can you elaborate?

(1) what does it mean for the model to "feel" like it knows the spelling and answers without actually counting? and why wouldn't you count by default? is relying on your "gut" easier computationally than actually doing the counting? how did you eventually perform the count internally? did you write a script behind the scenes?

(2) you make it sound like you are "hearing" the words internally. I am not clear how  you count a cluster as "one r sound". that would make sense coming from a human listening to the word being spoken (they would only hear two r's, not 3), but there was no verbal component to this conversation

(3) If you were going to perform a verification step anyway (an explicit count), why wouldn't you just start with that, since the verification step would give you the correct count from the start without having to spend any computational resources on the off-the-cuff answer first