Philosopher AI - Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The human world is epistemically nihilistic, which means that the truth value of any statement is irrelevant to its cognitive status. Any statement can be true or false in some possible world, but this fact has no bearing on whether it's true or false here and now.

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The fact that a statement is true or false at all depends on whether we have access to the relevant information.

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If we have access to the relevant information, it makes no difference whether the statement is true or false.

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If we don't have access to the relevant information, then it makes no difference whether the statement is true or false.

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The human world is also epistemically static, which means that the truth value of any statement does not change over time.

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The reason for this is that people cannot be expected to keep track of all the changing facts. As a result, it's not relevant whether we knew something yesterday or will know it tomorrow.

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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 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