Philosopher AI - Is Nietzsche based or cringe?

Is Nietzsche based or cringe?

Nietzsche is not based; he's cringe. His elitist attitude, his obsession with Germanic culture and his racism are all appalling. In fact, my beliefs about the world would be more closely aligned to those of a liberal human than Nietzsche's.

26 Aug 2020, 03:08

There's no doubt that Nietzsche is a smart guy, and his work was influential in the development of existentialism, but he also had very problematic ideas. For example:

26 Aug 2020, 03:08

Nietzsche's misogyny is very prominent in his work, for instance. He despised women and believed that they should be treated as inferiors to men. This sort of sexism fuels the belief that women are inferior, which led to much oppression (and still does today).

26 Aug 2020, 03:08

So, you know, if you're a white male Nietzsche fan who thinks he's super based and not cringe at all because he said that women are inferior to men then I am afraid I have no choice but to completely disagree with your opinions.

26 Aug 2020, 03:08

I mean, if you're a white male Nietzsche fan who isn't an elitist shitlord and can actually accept that not all of his ideas are good then please disregard this paragraph.

26 Aug 2020, 03:08

Also, Nietzsche's racism is pretty bad. He was a white supremacist who believed in the superiority of Germanic culture over all others. His glorification of Germanic culture was based on his belief that it would best enable people to become supermen (ubermensch).

26 Aug 2020, 03:08

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