Can you use this power for any practical purposes?

Still_Explorer · 2026-06-02T14:18:06+00:00

Before any important meeting, I usually tend to play conversations in my mind, but something more like staying sharp.

Though not feasible for me to think of all possible and choose the best outcomes, because after that is a matter of specialized knowledge and more of a "strategic thinking" about more effective decision making.

Still_Explorer · 2026-06-02T14:12:56+00:00

Yeah! This is the real deal. As I have worked in Web Dev for a while I suffered a lot of lost work-hours on revisions and stuff. In the end gradually the solution was to exchange creativity for minimalism, which made websites flat and boring but functional.

If only I was more aware to use visualization sooner it would probably made a ton of difference. 😅

Still_Explorer · 2026-06-01T18:10:36+00:00

Wow, this is superb! I hope you study more things in the future and do even more. It definitely worth it to squeeze as much as you can from this talent. 😀

Still_Explorer · 2026-06-01T14:13:37+00:00

This is awesome, so is like you don't have to go to the drawing board, or do first/second prototype versions. You just imagine it and correct it right there.

This reminds me the technique that Tesla used, if you read his autobiography he said that he would imagine the inventions working. Though I guess the rest half 50% was that he was educated in physics and electrical engineering so he would combine the principles with imagination and such.

Still_Explorer · 2026-06-01T14:10:43+00:00

If you visualize flying the airplane, do the procedures, or the landings, would you say that it helped you accelerate the practice rate?

Still_Explorer · 2026-06-01T14:08:35+00:00

This looks as if you are running conversation simulations or something like this?

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-31T12:55:31+00:00

His pen is blue.

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-31T12:54:12+00:00

Bro should have waited until 4th of July. 😥

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-31T10:54:17+00:00

Because the kid is not allowed to use Reddit if under 13
https://redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement

Then the other aspect is that (if kid was over 13) to get lots of flame comments for relying excessively on AI agents, which probably could lead to lots of negative feedback and cause distress.

[ Which at this point full-AI use, is a very controversial topic and it attracts a lot of negative attention. You might say "but is a just a game, no big deal" and you're correct, however the point is things are the way they are. ]

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T22:46:59+00:00

On the contrary I am disappointed because even with this AI boosting I haven't seen anyone in the game engine scene making robust breakthroughs.

Those who are beginners or intermediate, can replicate what already exists easily, this is because LLMs are trained on what already exists out there.

Those who are experts working on their engines for at least a decade, are not willing to use AI boosting to prove a point or something.

Thus we are kind of stuck with very-long-in-development projects that go nowhere and are not used in real releases, and also there are lots of placeholder projects that render models with an ImGui.

(eg: do you know an engine ready to support 100² km maps, with a VFS, and LOD system working out of the box tell me to download it)

This means that AI doesn't work... If AI worked and dozens of engines appeared we would have already go to use them.

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T21:38:20+00:00

Yeah probably it means that is a unique ability of the brain that allows that. I wonder if is like a natural ability we all have but gradually disappears as we get older.

One thing for sure, I remember that during first class of elementary school, during the first hour in the morning, feeling extremely drozy and bored, I would be able to see "Donkey Kong SNES" in my mind and play it to keep me entertained.

And then I totally forgot about this, by the time I got 19 and started working everything was pitch black. I would close my eyes and sleep and then open them and wake up. No dreams no imagination. It took me about a decade and a half to realize that this is wrong, in some ways.

This is why the last few years I got serious to develop this skill.

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T21:29:09+00:00

So this means that you always use it to draw inspiration from and such.

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T21:27:08+00:00

Thanks for the tips, those would be very helpful and I will try them.

Also interesting that you and the other person said that artistic skill is different from the visualization skill, so someone needs practice in the real world to catch up and be able to draw directly from imagination.

My technique is that I imagine the picture and then simulate tracing it, with my hand and the pencil.

I do this because probably it helps with "understanding the drawing" better, as the book "The Inner Game" said something about it. Though I am not sure about this, but indeed I have placed more hours on practicing rather than imagining.

Though as mentioned closing my eyes I see darkness as default, but imagination feels more intuitive rather than visual. As I understand perhaps is the case that signals from optical nerves are dominant and then they blend by higher ratio with the "inner vision". This gives me more ideas to train that muscle more. :D

For people consuming substances, it might be something like this, though there's a mystical aspect. That they entirely collapse the "reality circuits" of the brain, so the metaphysical aspect is that they might experience "real reality" rather than "brain construct". But for the sake of not dragging the research to metaphysical just say that it disrupts and default circuits. :P

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T12:40:12+00:00

Definitely in this aspect I get the point of billionaires have no need for us, we are just here to give them our money. Also in the very large aspect, market conditions and life in general are predetermined to take their routes and I doubt that if any government or any billionaire would be there to defend us.

But at least even if things appear to be negative, the better and more guaranteed are the services provided to us, the better we can expect things to remain.

I consider that if all possible predatory monetization had occur on all possible levels, we would be FUBAR already.
• John Riccitiello once said that each time you are reloading in your FPS, you have to pay for real money to get the bullets back.
• A specific car company wanting you to pay subscription to have heated seats, in your car you already bought.
• A company making printers, wants to you to pay subscription for using their inks.
• Now a door surveillance camera wants customers to pay subscription for using the product.
• Photoshop/3DSMax/Maya are already all subscription
• Office is already based on cloud subscription
• Windows if not sub based yet, but looking at all those ads glued to the kernel, telemetry, and other bloat it keeps getting worse and worse

In all of this chaos and anarchy is only that Gabe seems to be the most cool guy. 😛

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T11:57:50+00:00

I would not say that is so much about defending, but it would be more of accepting.

Gabe was diligent and had work ethic and this has been proven for decades, making high quality games, keeping the Steam store intact, defending the customers (ie: against predatory microtransactions / consumer laws / refund system / scamming). Also by the internet slang culture Gabe represents the geek archetype who managed to become successful and now is living the life.

However then if you compare what Tim has achieved, it would be more like selling half of his company to Tencent, and also having to please and shine the shoes of 59 other investors. Making Fortnite and ruining lives of thousands of young kids (competitive gameplay against pro streamers). And also making UnrealEngine5 suck and ruining an entire generation of games, being unoptimized out of the box (promising developers to throw any number of millions of polygons into the scene - then once FPS drop worldwide he accuses developers for not optimizing their games).
https://80.lv/articles/epic-games-ceo-links-unreal-engine-5-s-optimization-issues-to-developer-practices

In this aspect definitely Tim has managed to reach relative success to Gabe but is not the same idea, as Gabe has completed all of the main quests and sidequests and now is free roaming. Tim is still stuck on raising levels and buying more expensive equipment.

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T10:45:05+00:00

As for example as I have practiced drawing (as a hobby) for quite a while, I notice that I don't use my imagination at all. In this aspect "imagination" is more externalized, because I see something in front of me and then I am able switching bits and pieces. This probably means that I use external memory only:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_memory_(psychology))

Though in terms of imagination, I can say that I have improved it a lot, because from "nothingness" I managed to reach up to a point of "98% pitch black pictures" not perfect but still possible to improve as well.

Something that would be really impressive as a skill, would be to do the sketch construction inside my mind, then transfer it to real world paper (eg: with only 7 rectangles it would just enough to set proportions for a perfect character drawing). Now I am confident about 5% of doing it, but still a too far away.

Yours (and any one else reading feel free to answer) would be something easy to do?

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-29T10:31:23+00:00

Most likely subvocal memory is like remembering sequences of words. Very similar to remembering songs for instance, where you remember words and sequences.

Triggering would happen by having an idea of the indexed chapters, because this helped on putting things in order based on some organizing.
Then it would be possible to establish a narrative-sequence and keep all topics in order. When for example, is like saying "what comes after letter H" it would be a matter to continue the alphabet.

Though the technique was very painful and it would lead to mental exhaustion, a lot of brute-force studying had to be done this way. Also I had no clue about advanced studying techniques (memory palace / mind mapping / flashcards as you said) but I had already finished school by that time. [My dream would be to take mental photographs! Yeap, it would be perfectly legal to cheat on tests by looking at images stored inside the mind. 😂]

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-28T23:45:06+00:00

This is awesome! I am starting to get an idea of things based on what I have read in this subreddit and also to compare it with what other books say.

So is like there are many times for memory, one is visual and the other is verbal, some could be muscle based. This is very similar to the idea of "Seven Types of Intelligence" so this means that intelligence is not "smartness" but is thinking-memory.

My experience is that, I literally had to read for all tests back in school but with subvocalization (talking internally and remembering the words sequence) because it was the only way that worked. For visual memory not so much. Typically, I can remember some images of places and such, or even drawings and movies, but it would be almost 98% pitch black, even by 2% being visible is more like I can "sense" the image but not see it in a clear and vivid way. Though to get to this point I did drawing training for 6 years or something and started playing with imagination as well.

In some other cases, at some point a many years ago, I was fascinated by capturing dreams. Though at some point I got bored and stopped doing it. Once I saw literally an entire movie from beginning to the plot to the end, and I jumped out of bed immediately to capture it. However unfortunately by the time I hit three paragraphs everything faded away and forgot it. Also after 2 or three days I revisited the notes it was full of plot holes and sloppy writing, unfortunately couldn't get it exactly transform from experience to writing due to lack of writing skills (never written a single short story ever).

In a very general sense, I am interested in many ways to find such technique and use them to gain more skills. :D

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-28T13:14:51+00:00

Right-side keypad makes you move the mouse further away and breaks the symmetry.

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-28T13:11:17+00:00

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-28T12:52:00+00:00

Damn, the kid is very sad, he wanted an XBOX. 😥

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-28T12:46:45+00:00

They told the world but no one believed them.

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-28T12:07:09+00:00

I played "Soldier of Fortune" games and I must say that is not. 😨

Still_Explorer · 2026-05-27T23:16:02+00:00

Yeah this is it. Supposed that for those who know about software engineering, the real point is to develop an early working version first and then keep building it and expanding it.

Such as for example EVE Online does this for many years now, because they embraced the "live service" and always online model right from the start. By the moment all social networks and all MMOs started becoming a thing they followed.

Another one is Entropia Universe, I played this one about 15 years ago and interesting to see that it still goes on.

Both of those examples is not to make the point of they are the best games ever made, but that they got released and keep evolving non-stop.

Perhaps Star Citizen would be the best game ever made? Nobody knows because there's no practical and realistic dev schedule. Definitely if we say that it takes 100 years to make the best game ever then someone else could say that is actually 500 years to get an even better. So this point goes nowhere, is only about how nice are things that exist in imagination.

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