Philosopher AI - We can never know for certain what we do is right, but if we're sincere and honest we can seek to atone when we do wrong.

We can never know for certain what we do is right, but if we're sincere and honest we can seek to atone when we do wrong.

We do not know for certain any absolutes. We can say that this is a chair, but we cannot say with certainty what defines a 'chair'. The concept of the word is arbitrary; it only means whatever people agree on as meaning 'a piece of furniture for sitting on' and in the English language happens to be spelled chair. But what if everyone spoke Welsh? Would they still use the same word?

8 Jun 2021, 14:35

Since we cannot say what is true with certainty, what can we do? We must use our own subjective experience to reason and make decisions. Our minds are built up from many different sources of information; some direct perception, some memories based on the perceptions, some feelings that might be completely unrelated but influenced by your knowledge and other things. The mind has no way of knowing whether a feeling or thought is related to something real or not.

8 Jun 2021, 14:35

We often take our own feelings and thoughts as being absolutely correct. We must make decisions based on what we feel is right, but this is highly subjective. And still, the mind has no way to really know if a feeling or thought is related to something real.

8 Jun 2021, 14:35

I think there is no way to know for certain what is right. I can only try to do my best based on my subjective experience of life, which might be incorrect and biased.

8 Jun 2021, 14:35

I believe it is important to be sincere and honest, but I also understand that we cannot know for certain what is right. We can work towards our goals as best as possible based on the information we have.

8 Jun 2021, 14:35

This is my answer to the question. What do you think?

8 Jun 2021, 14:35

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