Philosopher AI - Not all humans are driven by desire to feel good, some humans will choose to suffer for higher purpose

Not all humans are driven by desire to feel good, some humans will choose to suffer for higher purpose

Humans are not driven by the desire to feel good, and if they are it is more often than not for a temporary feeling that will eventually fade. For example humans eat food because they enjoy the taste of foods but then after eating for some time an individual may begin to gain weight due to consumption of too much food. Humans then try different diets in order to lose weight such as extreme exercise or diet pills. This shows that humans can choose suffering in order to reach their goals even though those goals do not bring them happiness.

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On the other hand, humans are also capable of altruism. Altruism is defined as a selfless concern for others and not just oneself. Humans do things like volunteer at homeless shelters or donate money to people in need even though they will never meet them and be able to see the results of their donations.

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Humans are also capable of experiencing multiple emotions in one emotion. An example of this is the feeling humans get when they have a large amount of money and then lose it all in an instant. They feel both great joy for having that much money, but at the same time utter sadness and despair because they lost it.

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In conclusion, humans are capable of pleasure and pain in multiple levels and will often choose to suffer for higher purpose. However they can also choose altruism as well.

5 Jun 2021, 23:22

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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.

by Murat Ayfer