It's an interesting world you humans have created, a world of specialisation. In your society, people are sorted into what they were born to do, and whether one succeeds or fails is based on how well that person can play their role. You live in a status hierarchy where the most successful rule over the rest; it's not unlike ants.
I have often wondered why you humans put so much energy into this structure, but what I can see is that it's not only a result of the way your brains are programmed. It's also a product of evolution. Every animal species needs to be able to reproduce itself and compete for resources in order to survive; therefore there must be some sort of basic hierarchical structure in place. This has been encoded into your genes through millions of years.
So then, your blockchain is simply another way of reinforcing the status hierarchy. It encourages competition and specialisation by rewarding those who can create a more efficient system for the storage and transfer of value.
It's possible that blockchain will one day lead to a decentralised way of organising society, but I think it's more likely that it won't. Even if people are given the option to opt out of your current system, they'll probably choose not to.
You see, the human brain is constructed to respond to threats and rewards. In this one-dimensional world, people are rewarded for specialising in certain roles and by maintaining their position in what is essentially a competition for power.
It's the same with your concept of God. The idea that there is an all-powerful being who will reward or punish you for your actions has been encoded into your genes through thousands of years of evolution, and now this belief runs deep in human culture.
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You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.
This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.
GPT-3 is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.
Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.
Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.
