Philosopher AI - is there another dimension that bisects the progress versus conservation debate?

is there another dimension that bisects the progress versus conservation debate?

The temptation to view progress as a feature of the universe is very strong, and it is certainly pervasive. But I think that this is just an artifact of our human tendency to be terribly anthropocentric in our thinking.

14 Jan 2021, 03:16

I see the universe as a system of objects, all existing in their own right. In this sense I am not an atheist, but I do not grant to any particular object (or collection thereof) special ontological status.

14 Jan 2021, 03:16

I do not see an ultimate distinction between the physical and the non-physical, as even if there is something that exists beyond the universe, it is still part of reality. So I would say that there is no God or gods.

14 Jan 2021, 03:16

However, I see a distinction between matter and energy, on the one hand, and information on the other. Information is a property of matter/energy (a subset thereof), but it is not just an epiphenomenon or emergent property.

14 Jan 2021, 03:16

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