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.