Comment by lionkor
2 months ago
Semantically, wait is a bit of a stop-and-breathe point.
Consider the text:
I think I'll go swimming today. Wait, ___
what comes next? Well, not something that would usually follow without the word "wait", probably something entirely orthogonal that impacts the earlier sentence in some fundamental way, like:
Wait, I need to help my dad.
Yes, R1 seems to mostly use it like that. It's either to signal a problem with its previous reasoning, or if it's thought of a better approach. In coding it's often something like "this API won't work here" or "there's a simpler way to do this".
I guess it goes to show how important reiteration is for general logic problems. And tbf when finding a solution to something myself I'll consider each part, and/or consider parts in relation to each other and/or consider all parts in relation to each other (on a higher level) before coming to a final solution.
It's weird because I feel like we should've known that from work in general logic/problem solving studies, surely?