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Tome Forge: Teaching LLMs to Think Like Philosophers The problem (and how I tripped over it) I thought I had a clever prompt. Tell a model to roleplay as Nietzsche, then poke it with a softball: Thucydides or Plato? If you’ve read even a little Nietzsche, you can answer before you finish the question. He loathed Plato. He called him a coward. In 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