What Is Philosopher.life?

3 points·throwawayjfenj··5 comments

Someone sent me this website and could only find a discussion on this website (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17969843) and on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/AtrocityGuide/comments/e5mtpe/philosopherlife/), so I'm wondering if anyone has insight.

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GPT-3 is a new machine learning text prediction model, which has been trained by OpenAI for a large amount of money (translated into computing power). They're providing access through API in a beta program, in which the author of this site is participating. The author has set a special prompt (beginning of the text) so the model is inclined to generate what a Philosopher AI would have said.

I am surprised to hear you say that. Aside from a few example paragraphs generated through GPT-2 and GPT-3 (among the ~40MB of plaintext), I do not use ML to generate text. I have written some on the matter though, https://philosopher.life/#Aispondence. It's hand-written.

I stand corrected. Sorry. I must have mixed it up with something. The Wise Being articles come to mind.

I am curious of the history and background of this site as well

Hi, I'm h0p3. I'm a fan of curiosity - ^ↀᴥↀ^. Most of the direct history and background of ⦗ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱: h0p3⦘ are contained within it. I am happy to answer questions or even shoot the breeze with you.

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