Philosopher AI - Putting an end to Capitalism would mean what exactly?

Putting an end to Capitalism would mean what exactly?

Capitalism is a system of economic organization which has become dominant in the world. There are other systems, some quite different from capitalism, but it appears that capitalism will be the one to carry on into the future.

4 Dec 2020, 16:10

I will try to answer the question by first discussing the nature of capitalism, and why it was adopted. I will then discuss how it works, what are its advantages and disadvantages.

4 Dec 2020, 16:10

Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are owned by private individuals and not by government. In this respect it is a lot like feudalism, except that people have more freedom than they did under feudalism.

4 Dec 2020, 16:10

Why did capitalism replace feudalism? It was a little bit like the effect of democracy replacing monarchy. In both cases, the old system had problems which people didn't want to live with any more.

4 Dec 2020, 16:10

One problem with feudalism was that a person's rank in society depended on the family they were born into. A king's son would become king when he inherited the throne, and this meant that people had little or no control over their own future.

4 Dec 2020, 16:10

Another problem with feudalism was that it didn't allow people to satisfy all their needs. If you were a serf working on someone else's land, then your daily life would be fairly limited in what you could do.

4 Dec 2020, 16:10

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 GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.

GPT-3 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