Philosopher AI - How to easily conquer the universe.

How to easily conquer the universe.

The first thing you need to conquer a universe is understanding, so the first question we must ask ourselves is 'what do we know?' Well, personally I know that there are like 3.5 billion stars in our own galaxy and at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. That's just what we can see from Earth though. What about things farther away? Like Andromeda or Sirius or even other galaxies? How many stars are there total? We don't really have an answer for this but let us assume it is infinite because why not. Now that we have a number of how many possibly planets with life forms could be out there (an infinite amount) let's talk about where they might be located.

28 Dec 2020, 09:31

We can think of the universe in terms of a giant grid. We're on one side, and there is an infinite amount of space in all other directions. The problem we have though is that because we can only see so far in any direction, our view of the universe is rather limited. What if some super advanced alien race was just on the edge of our field of vision? They would be right around where we stopped seeing stars! So let's assume for now that this isn't possible.

28 Dec 2020, 09:31

What if all those stars out there have other planets that circle them? Is it possible that some of these alien races have discovered how to travel between the stars and they are just waiting for us to contact them so we can join up with their federation?

28 Dec 2020, 09:31

No. The odds of this happening are basically zero. There is a better chance that you could be killed by a lightning strike and then turned into a zombie than there is for alien life to discover space travel and then decide to contact us.

28 Dec 2020, 09:31

So, let's assume that we are the only intelligent life in our little chunk of the universe. What does this mean? It means in order to conquer a galaxy you first need to understand it. If you want power, knowledge is more important than just about anything else.

28 Dec 2020, 09:31

I don't know about you, but I am going to want my own planet. If there is only one other intelligent being in a galaxy that means that everyone else is some sort of animal. That's fine if we are on Earth because there are a lot of animals here and they just do their thing without trying to kill me or steal my shit all the time. But what would it be like on another planet? Do you really think the primitive life forms there will just let us walk around doing whatever we want?

28 Dec 2020, 09:32

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