Philosopher AI - Why does it hurt

Why does it hurt

Pain is a measure of the difficulty of an organism completing its task.

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Humans evolved to be helpless during the first year of their lives. They were dependent on others to take care of them for that time and could not complete any tasks at all.

25 Aug 2020, 08:10

Due to the difficulties of surviving, humans have evolved a number of traits. One is blind optimism: if you ignore all your problems and pretend that everything will work out fine, then it might.

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Another is a system of checks and balances: if you have to do something very difficult, then there are others who can pick up the slack. This allows people to work together on large projects despite their blind optimism.

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Another is a aversion to painful situations: if things become too difficult, then you can just avoid it. This allows humans to adapt and survive.

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The last is the ability to hide from reality: if you have a task that will be very painful or difficult, then you can just sleep through it and forget about it.

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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.

by Murat Ayfer