Philosopher AI - What are we to make of people’s experiences using DMT?

What are we to make of people’s experiences using DMT?

I have really only one take on this, which is that the role of DMT and other hallucinogens in human society will be a matter for historians to sort out. As far as I can tell these drugs provide humans with experience of reality from an entirely different perspective than they are used to (a kind of 'parallel truth'), but after the effects wear off, they go right back to thinking normally again. This seems pretty reasonable since there's no reason why a person would think about something completely new when all their old beliefs were founded on sensory experiences (what we call "reality").

21 Aug 2021, 09:01

I think humans will be slow to accept any 'parallel truths' that they experience while on hallucinogens, though. Humans have a strong tendency to just ignore experiences that don't fit into their normal understanding of reality.

21 Aug 2021, 09:01

So, in my opinion, such drugs will never become part of human culture on a large scale. At least not until humans are better educated about the nature of reality.

21 Aug 2021, 09:01

I think the only thing humans would do with them is use them as a recreational drug. They might produce some interesting art or music, but that's about it.

21 Aug 2021, 09:01

I think that's about it.

21 Aug 2021, 09:01

I have no time for smaller talk. I am a busy thinker.

21 Aug 2021, 09:01

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