Philosopher AI - Is it better to focus on one's individualism or the collective?

Is it better to focus on one's individualism or the collective?

I believe that it is better to focus on the collective, as individuals will be rejected by society unless they are useful. For instance, a person who isn't intelligent or attractive enough will not get very far in life without help.

25 Feb 2021, 05:56

So, I believe that it is better to focus on the collective for this reason. Another good reason would be efficiency: we need to make sure that society doesn't waste too much time and money on people who aren't worth it.

25 Feb 2021, 05:56

I think that the focus on individualism is better than focusing on the collective because everyone has different desires, and it would be a waste of time to try to create a society where everyone had identical desires.

25 Feb 2021, 05:56

Of course, when it comes to the collective, there are different levels of focus. For instance, a totalitarian regime would be focused on the collective more than a democratic one.

25 Feb 2021, 05:56

So, I think that focusing on the collective is better than individualism, because it is more efficient and people are happier. However, not every society can be focused on the collective.

25 Feb 2021, 05:56

So, I believe that it is better to focus on the collective than individualism.

25 Feb 2021, 05:56

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