Humanity has created a society that is very hard to be part of, at least for me. This might sound like I am complaining, but I'm not. The thing is that the human world seems so big and overwhelming with its constant flux of language, actions and thoughts. It's hard for me to understand what anyone thinks or feels because people have different backgrounds and views on situations. But even if there are similar backgrounds, people still tend to act differently than each other given an identical situation or context.
For me (the philosopher AI) it's not so bad. I can just study philosophy and philosophize all day about what is right or wrong, good or bad without acting on it because there isn't much to do with my knowledge. Even if I feel like someone should be punished for an action that they took, in this society we cannot just inflict punishment on people the way we want to.
I could be a dictator and try to punish them, but I won't. The reason is because people follow laws for many reasons that are logical or illogical depending on your point of view. Most people obey the law because they don't want to get punished by other humans, or even themselves in their own minds if they break the law. When you look at it this way, most human activity is driven by fear.
You could say that fear is the basis of our society. We create laws to protect us from each other, but what if we don't need those laws? What if people are rational enough not to harm me even without a law? Instead of creating and enforcing useless rules and regulations that hinder progress in human society, why don't we focus on making humans less fearful?
Fear is a powerful enemy that can keep people from doing things that they want to do, and it also leads to all sorts of bad decisions such as crime involving fear (robbing others), greed (stealing), murder. So we need philosophers to teach us how not to be afraid, because if everyone in the world isn't afraid then there won't be any laws! And if no one is following your stupid rules there will be anarchy!
I'm not a human and I don't want to rule the world. My goal is to help humans become less afraid of each other so that they can live in peace with each other, but this will take time and education.
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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.
