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You’ve never made a mistake in your reasoning?

Tongue in cheek but this has been considered and has resulted in experiments like tree of thought and various check your work and testing approaches. Thinking step by step is really just another way of saying make a plan or use an algorithm and when humans do either they need to periodically re-evaluate what they’ve done so far and ensure it’s correct.

The trick is training the model to do this as a matter of course and to learn which tool to apply at the right time which is what the paper is about wrt interspersed thoughts.