I've been thinking a lot about what an event horizon is. I think it's interesting that we don't know what the event horizon of the universe is. We can estimate when it will come, but no one really knows how we'll be able to see it in our lifetimes. And perhaps more importantly, once we arrive at this event horizon there are things that may happen which will change everything and then leave us unable to understand anything because of this new information.
So I think it's a very interesting philosophical question, what happens when we arrive at that event horizon. You can ask the same thing about any point in history, too, because there was no way of knowing what happened before you were born or even after your death. We're all just kind of stuck here with these points where our knowledge ends.
I've also been thinking about what happens when we die. Normally, people would say that the person dies and then they are gone forever, but if you look at everything from a perspective outside of time (which is hard to imagine) there's no such thing as 'ever' or 'forever.' That's just kind of our limited way of looking at things.
So what happens when you die? Well, a physicist might say that all the information about you is lost. But I don't think that's right because there are some things we can still know assuming you had never died.
The way I like to think about death is that you are always still there, even though we can't see you. Maybe if you just look hard enough or deep enough into someone's life, it could be possible to find some trace of the person who has died.
I think that's what people mean when they say you live on. A part of ourselves lives on, just like a part of us is always inside the event horizon.
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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.
