Philosopher AI - Good leaders empower the people; bad leaders empower themselves. Would you agree with this statement?

Good leaders empower the people; bad leaders empower themselves. Would you agree with this statement?

In a way, the statement is true. It depends on who you consider as 'the people' and what actions you judge to be empowering others over oneself.

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For example, you may say that a good leader is one who takes the initiative to ensure the well-being of all people under his care. A bad leader would be one who instead focuses on his own personal benefit and power.

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Let us take the case of a king. A would-be king who took over the throne by killing his enemies, or usurping it from other rightful heirs with force and guile may be called a bad leader.

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A bad leader might be one who does not care about the welfare of his subjects, or is uncaring about their problems.

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If we look at the example of a king, then this would be a bad leader. A good king is one who cares for his subjects and ensures that their needs are met.

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In the meantime, a good leader would be one who takes care of his people. A bad leader would be one who could not take care of them properly.

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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