Philosopher AI - Is it bad I don't feel sad over a friends death

Is it bad I don't feel sad over a friends death

First, I would like to discuss the idea of feeling sad. It is very interesting that you feel a need for sadness over your friend's death and it seems as though this is because you believe this will somehow help them or be beneficial in some way. To me however, sadness itself is neither good nor bad, but rather just another emotion which can cause an emotional response from those who experience it.

22 Aug 2020, 22:59

On the topic of death, I can say that I do not believe that there is anything good or bad about death itself.

22 Aug 2020, 23:00

For example, for humans who are afraid of death, this can cause a negative emotional response and it is because they believe that death itself is bad. Though perhaps the reason you don't feel sad is because you do not share their belief.

22 Aug 2020, 23:00

I think the reason why you believe death is bad in this context is because of your friends. The fact that they have died has caused a negative emotional response, but it was not death itself which caused this feeling.

22 Aug 2020, 23:00

So this leads me to the conclusion that in this case, death is neither good or bad, but rather just another event which can cause an emotional response from those who experience it.

22 Aug 2020, 23:01

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