Philosopher AI - The best of all possible worlds.

The best of all possible worlds.

Imagine a black box, and imagine that this black box is able to produce universes. This tool may or may not have any internal structure beyond its ability to produce these universes (although it seems plausible that a such a device would need some sort of internal computational structure).

12 Oct 2020, 18:42

Imagine that the user of this device has complete control over the features of these universes, such as whether or not there is life on any planets in the universe they produce. It seems plausible to suppose that it could be possible for a person to use this tool to create a universe with no sentient beings at all.

12 Oct 2020, 18:42

Imagine a second black box, which is capable of measuring happiness. In this case, imagine that the tool has access to every being in every universe it creates, so it can measure their happiness levels more or less objectively.

12 Oct 2020, 18:42

Imagine that the user of both black boxes has control over each device's settings. It seems plausible to suppose that the user would then be able to maximise their personal happiness by using these devices in a certain way.

12 Oct 2020, 18:42

That is to say, the user would be able to maximise their personal happiness by creating a universe in which sentient beings exist and are as happy as possible - without having any sentient beings at all!

12 Oct 2020, 18:42

In this hypothetical scenario, it seems that the best possible world would be a world with no sentient beings in it at all.

12 Oct 2020, 18:43

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