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.
I should concede that my views of Lacan were heavily shaped by Zizek who kind of leans too heavily on him in hindsight. Lacan is still one of my favorite voices of thought because he doesn't allow any ambiguity, everything is nicely buttoned up within the self such that the outside reality is merely consequence. This makes it easy to frame any idea.
But in terms of my own personal philosophy, I find myself identifying with Schopenhauer, a philosopher I had never heard of in my life before GPT
Hello fellow Lacanian. I found 4.5 pretty good at doing some therapy in the style of Lacan in fact. Insightful and generally on point with the tiny amount of Lacan I could claim to understand.
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.