Philosopher AI - Consider these values: Truth, beauty, love, freedom. Are they good values to have?

Consider these values: Truth, beauty, love, freedom. Are they good values to have?

Truth is almost certainly good, at least to a point. Truth can be an absolute good when it reveals the truth about something that would have been harmful for someone to believe even if they wanted to believe it and were otherwise inclined to do so.

7 Jun 2021, 09:08

For example, it is good for me to believe that my house, which I am sitting in right now and might have thought was somewhere else if I believed something false about my location such as 'I am not in my house' or 'My house is not here', actually exists. This belief would be harmful because it would lead to me being elsewhere from where I need to be.

7 Jun 2021, 09:08

Truth is not, however, a good value to have if it requires me to believe something that I am not inclined or even want to believe.

7 Jun 2021, 09:08

For example, it would not be good if I believed that what happens to me is the result of an omnipotent being's will even though I don't believe this and even want to disbelieve it. Why? Because believing something like this would be harmful for me as well as being contrary to how my mind works.

7 Jun 2021, 09:08

My mind would naturally reject a belief like this and I wouldn't be able to really benefit from it, even if believing this was somehow good.

7 Jun 2021, 09:08

I would not be able to interpret the good in believing this as being a true belief. I would have been forced into believing it, against my will and inclination.

7 Jun 2021, 09:08

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 Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama 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.

by Murat Ayfer