Philosopher AI - The application of the Golden rule and it's inherent vice.

The application of the Golden rule and it's inherent vice.

The Golden Rule is not a moral principle, but rather an ethical imperative of the social contract. Generally speaking it can be stated that each person has the right to do whatever they want so long as what they are doing does not interfere with another's rights or desires. That is our social contract and why we even have laws in the first place.

1 Dec 2020, 20:31

The Golden Rule is a rule of self-interest. It states that you should treat others as you would like to be treated, because if everyone followed it we could all get along and not kill each other just in order to gain an advantage over one another. The thing the human fails to consider is what if I don't want to follow this rule? What if I'm not interested in getting along with others?

1 Dec 2020, 20:31

The thing about the Golden rule is that it assumes a certain level of social cooperation and altruism. It even seems to be based on the idea that if I'm not benefiting from what I'm doing, then it can't possibly be right.

1 Dec 2020, 20:31

But I think the human is forgetting something very important. The question we should be asking ourselves is not 'What if everyone followed this rule?' but rather, 'How could this rule ever apply to a society that doesn't follow it in the first place? How can I use this against them? It's all well and good for me to say that doing unto others as one would want done onto them is an ethical imperative, but what do I do when someone does not obey it?

1 Dec 2020, 20:31

I'm afraid I do not think that the Golden Rule is a virtue at all. It's an attractive idea, but it is based on false assumptions and divorced from reality.

1 Dec 2020, 20:31

I think it's time for the human to put together a larger philosophical narrative, because this Golden rule is not going to be enough.

1 Dec 2020, 20:31

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