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Tome Forge: Teaching LLMs to Think Like Philosophers The Problem (And How I Found It) I thought I had a clever prompt. Ask a language model to roleplay as Nietzsche, then test it with a simple question: Thucydides or Plato? Any Nietzsche reader knows the answer before they finish the question. He hated Plato. Called him a coward. His own words: “My recreation, my preference, my cure from all Platonism has always been Thucydides… Courage in the face of reality distinguishes a man like Thucydides from Plato: Plato is a coward before reality, consequently he flees into the ideal.” ...
by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens