alt Hacker NewsChain of thought seems very specifically like an instantiation of the System 2 thinking of the System 1 and 2 thinking Daniel Kahneman popularized.
Is it clunky in that it's a verbalized/languified version of system 2 thinking, and clearly humans do some non-verbal version too?
Some humans apparently only or almost only do non-verbal thinking. It’s called anendophasia.