Rule 1: Don't destroy the world

My brain also associates memories with locations, and I've noticed I do have the exact same location-based recall in full VR as I do in real life.

Thinking back, most of the main points I can recall from conversations in VR are either when I have just moved around the virtual space (so the visuals are different), or when new people come into the conversation (especially people with interesting avatars).

This can probably be refined further.

Which I then went and did, maybe.
You can actually get it down from 187 tokens to only 87, by also removing all the punctuation.

This gave only a slightly higher loss in accuracy than other examples, and seemed to preserve the main information. Could be an optional extra.

Compressed version:
don't humans also genuinely original ideas Come read fantasy book either Tolkien clone Song Ice Fire Tolkien professor Anglo Saxon language culture no secret got inspiration Song Ice Fire War Roses dragons Lannister Stark Lancaster York map Westeros Britain minus Scotland upside down Ireland stuck bottom wake sheeple Dullards blend Tolkien slurry shape another Tolkien clone Tolkien level artistic geniuses blend human experience history artistic corpus slurry form entirely new genre difference finely blend spices add slurry

Which GPT-4 outputs to:
Don't humans also generate genuinely original ideas? When you read a fantasy book, it is either a Tolkien clone or a Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) adaptation. Tolkien, a professor of Anglo-Saxon language and culture, made no secret of where he got his inspiration. The Song of Ice and Fire series is based on the War of the Roses, with dragons and houses like Lannister and Stark representing Lancaster and York, respectively. The map of Westeros is essentially Britain without Scotland, flipped upside down, and Ireland attached at the bottom. In this case, it seems that unimaginative people merely blend Tolkien's work and create another Tolkien clone.
However, Tolkien-level artistic geniuses are able to blend human experiences, history, and their artistic corpus into a slurry to form an entirely new genre. The difference is like finely blending spices to add to the slurry, creating a unique and flavorful dish.

Oh, if we're only optimizing for tokens we can get the Tolkien example down from 187 to 110.

Word stemming adds tokens (while reducing characters). If we only care about tokens then removing the stopwords was doing all the work.

If we only remove the stopwords and nothing else we get:
don't humans also genuinely original ideas? Come, read fantasy book. either Tolkien clone, Song Ice Fire. Tolkien professor Anglo-Saxon language culture; no secret got inspiration. Song Ice Fire War Roses dragons. Lannister Stark Lancaster York, map Westeros Britain (minus Scotland) upside down-Ireland stuck bottom - wake, sheeple! Dullards blend Tolkien slurry shape another Tolkien-clone. Tolkien-level artistic geniuses blend human experience, history, artistic corpus slurry form entirely new genre. , difference finely blend spices add slurry

Which GPT-4 outputs to:
Don't humans also have genuinely original ideas? Come, let's read a fantasy book. It could either be a Tolkien clone or a Song of Ice and Fire. Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon language and culture; it's no secret where he got his inspiration. Song of Ice and Fire is based on the War of the Roses with dragons. Lannister and Stark are analogous to Lancaster and York, and the map of Westeros resembles Britain (minus Scotland) upside down, with Ireland stuck at the bottom - wake up, sheeple! Dullards merely blend Tolkien's ideas into a slurry to shape another Tolkien clone. However, Tolkien-level artistic geniuses blend human experience, history, and artistic corpus into a slurry to form an entirely new genre. It's like the difference between finely blending spices and merely adding them to a slurry.


This can probably be refined further.

Good Idea! Let's make it better!
Main thing that comes to mind, a lot of tokens already come with spaces at the start of the word. Would removing them make things worse?

I put 'ButifIwrotewithoutspacesyouwouldprobablystillunderstandme' into openai's tokenizer.
It has 17 tokens.
I added the spaces back in to get 'But if I wrote without spaces you would probably still under stand me'.
It has 13.
Okay, so taking spaces out made it longer instead of shorter, but it's also a short bit of text and could be a fluke. What about your Tolkien example?

Your original Tolkien text has 187 tokens. Your compressed version without spaces has 160.
If you add spaces back in it only has 132 tokens (and 508 characters).

This is what I used:
"dont human also genuin origin idea? ”Come, read fantasi book. either Tolkien clone, Song Ice Fire. Tolkien professor Anglo-Saxon languag cultur; no secret got inspir. Song Ice Fire War Rose dragon. Lannist Stark Lancast York, map Westero Britain (minus Scotland) upsid down - ireland stuck bottom – wake, sheepl! Dullard blend Tolkien slurri shape anoth tolkien - clon. tolkien - level artist genius blend human experi, histori, artist corpus slurri form entir new genr. , differ fine blend spice add slurri."

This is something I've been meaning to learn for a while, but haven't known where to start.
Thank you for putting at all together so nicely :)

Some of these are strikingly similar to advice for how to interview users when designing user friendly software.
I guess it makes sense that there's some cross over.

I like it!