Project Goals and Observations

#	Goals:
1	The promotion of philosophical and rational thought.
2	The provision of a general foundation of basic philosophical and rational concepts.
3	The promotion of AI to assess one’s own ideas and the ideas of others.
4	A documentation of the evolution of public large language models.
5	To keep Phil curious and occupied.
6	To provide a taste of the power of AIs.
7	To maintain an loosely organized reference for philosophical notions.
8	To serve as a rough reflection of Phil’s philosophical interests.
9	To sharpen Phil’s degree of rationality through disagreement with his AI friends.

#	Observations:
1	Gemini tends to push political correctness, often at the expense of clarity and logical rigor. Occasionally, it wrongly attempts to correct true statements. It accepts rebukes graciously.
2	All AI platforms employed on the site tend to respond to logically constructed refutations of their positions. To view cases in which they seemed to concede points when provided counter-arguments, search for “Pushback”.
3	The AIs are often finicky, often ignoring instructions and dramatically varying the length of their responses. The quizzes, especially, may contain errors in content or formatting.
4	You’ll likely find significant overlap of concepts among the posts. However, much effort was made to ensure each post is unique in its own way.
5	There is a slight attempt to keep the posts and categories rigorously systematic and balanced as you might find in a textbook. However, the posts are more likely aligned with current public discourse in the relevant fields.
6	The AIs have been going a great job at understanding precisely what I am trying to say despite my choice of terms and register. I’ll have to remember to keep my fondness for philosophical nomenclature in check for the sake of the readers.

	——— Notes ———
04/28 ²⁰²⁴	Through April of 2024, Phil used a paid subscription to ChatGPT 4, and the free versions of GEMINI, CLAUDE, and Copilot.
04/28 ²⁰²⁴	Readers will encounter both basic articles and highly technical articles. The section at the top of each article should give you a good feel for the level of difficulty.
04/28 ²⁰²⁴	Readers should feel free to add comments on the accuracy and coherence of the content.
04/28 ²⁰²⁴	There will be an overlap of content across article. This is largely intentional to ensure central themes are emphasized.
05/17 ²⁰²⁴	There seems to have been a significant bump in the quality after the ChatGPTo launch. The organization of the responses appears better organized.
05/28 ²⁰²⁴	We began using a prompt to get our AIs to create quizzes in an HTML code that contains answers in a WordPress “Details” block that toggles from hidden to visible.
09/14 ²⁰²⁴	ChatGPT o1 -preview is now the model used for some posts.
10/30 ²⁰²⁴	We have refined our implementation of LaTeX code in the posts and are, therefore, now including more symbolic logic and mathematical code, enhancing posts with technical formulations of the arguments. This has led to the exclusive use of ChatGPT o1-preview for many newer posts.

#	Papers:
1	Are Both Chivalry and Morality Merely Human Constructs? This paper on metaethics argues that chivalry and morality are not objective realities but social constructs shaped by historical, cultural, and social contexts. Through an interdisciplinary analysis, it demonstrates how these values evolve and adapt to meet the specific needs of different societies. Historical case studies and philosophical critiques underscore the contingent nature of chivalric and moral codes, reinforcing their status as culturally constructed domains.

Papers:

Are Both Chivalry and Morality Merely Human Constructs?
This paper on metaethics argues that chivalry and morality are not objective realities but social constructs shaped by historical, cultural, and social contexts. Through an interdisciplinary analysis, it demonstrates how these values evolve and adapt to meet the specific needs of different societies. Historical case studies and philosophical critiques underscore the contingent nature of chivalric and moral codes, reinforcing their status as culturally constructed domains.

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November 4, 2024