Tome Forge
Tome Forge: Teaching LLMs to Think Like Philosophers The problem I thought I had a clever prompt. I told a model to roleplay as Nietzsche. Then I gave it a simple question: Thucydides or Plato? If you have read even a little Nietzsche, you know the answer before the question ends. 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.” ...