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Thrilled to see someone else using up all their tokens to dive deeply into ontological meaning. I think LLM are even better for this purpose than coding. After
by elif 2y ago
Thrilled to see someone else using up all their tokens to dive deeply into ontological meaning. I think LLM are even better for this purpose than coding. After all, what is an LLM but an excessively elaborate symbolic order?
My trick for this (works on all models) is to generate a dialogue with 2 distinct philosophical speakers going back and forth with each other, rather than my own ideas being part of the event loop. It's really exposed me to the ideas of philosophers who are less prolific, harder to read, obscure, overshadowed, etc.
My prompt has the chosen figures transported via time machine from 1 year prior to their death to the present era, having months to become fully versed in all manner of modern life.
- al_hag 2y agoThat seems worth publishing.
- elif 2y agoYep I am collecting my debates and one day I want to organize them with AI face and voices and release them as YouTube videos.
- botanical76 2y agoI would implore that you just write a blog post or two (or three) instead, but it is your choice of course.
- farts_mckensy 2y agoSymbolic order? Are you a Lacanian? It's rare to see a Lacanian in the wild, especially on hacker news.
- vessenes 2y agoHello fellow Lacanian. I found 4.5 pretty good at doing some therapy in the style of Lacan in fact. Insightful and generally on point with the tiny amount of Lacan I could claim to understand.
- adefa 2y agoI also have been using LLMs to better understand Lacan and others like D&G.
- elif 2y agoI should concede that my views of Lacan were heavily shaped by Zizek who kind of leans too heavily on him in hindsight. Lacan is still one of my favorite voices of thought because he doesn't allow any ambiguity, everything is nicely buttoned up within the self such that the outside reality is merely consequence. This makes it easy to frame any idea. But in terms of my own personal philosophy, I find myself identifying with Schopenhauer, a philosopher I had never heard of in my life before GPT