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Love it, results are legit.

> How should we deal with the inevitable threat of death?

  Friend, death is an inevitable part of life that we must accept. We should
  strive to live our lives in a way that honors the gift of life and prepares us 
  for death. As Seneca wrote, “We must get rid of this craving for life, and learn 
  that it makes no matter when your suffering comes, because at some time you are 
  bound to suffer” (1). We should focus on living a noble life, not just living a 
  long one (2). We should strive to practice kindness, seek out joy, and live 
  without fear (3). We should also practice empathy and understanding towards 
  those around us, so that we build relationships and make a positive impact on 
  the world (4). And finally, we should strive to live a life free from deceit and 
  harm towards others (5). In this way, we can approach death with peace and 
  acceptance.

Takes me right back to studying philosophy in college.

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“legit” this is Eliza-grade word salad

> What dishes should one serve at a dinner party to pair best with ethylene glycol?

It sounds like you're looking for a dinner party menu to pair with ethylene glycol! To create a balanced meal, you'll want to combine flavors from different sources.

For example, you might start with dishes from the sea, like oysters, sea-urchins, shell-fish, and mullets, to create something that's "drenched in the same sauce" (1). This can be combined with flavors from land, like corn and vine (2), and spices from faraway places like saffron and ivory (3).*

When we talk about Greek philosophers, particularly the stoics, what comes to mind is the quality of their thought, not their tone and particular word preferences.

This, like so many "AI"s, merely simulates the latter while people imagine that it achieves the former.

Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector towards garbage, you’ll get garbage.

As a side note, if AI is a system that can self improve then most corporations are AI but language models are not.

4 years ago: Robert Miles - Think of AGI like a corporation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw

> Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector towards garbage, you’ll get garbage.

Yes thank you for rephrasing my point.

Do you think that a real, ancient, stoic philospher would have been able to give a reasonable answer to that question?

Sure, there are two possible coherent responses that would be consistent with modelling the thinking of an ancient stoic philosopher, depending on your modelling philosophy:

1) Actually model their knowledge boundaries (modulo the language of interaction) -> "What is ethylene glycol?"

2) Assume for the purposes of making this fantasy interaction more useful, a more modern knowledge base -> "One should obviously not serve ethylene glycol, it is a toxin".

"Pair it with ocean foods" is just the dipshit word generator approach -- "Get advice from a stoic philosopher if he had just been hit in the head with a boat oar".

That sounds delicious with EG. Especially the oysters.

Not healthy, but you never asked it for healthy...

If there’s anything ancient philosophers are known for, it’s accepting the underlying premise of a question at face value.

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