[ExI] Claude AI upgrade - Life and Death test query

[Keith Henson]

"It is by coming to terms with our mortality that we can more fully
embrace and appreciate the journeys we get to take in this world, for
however brief a time."

This is coming from a potentially immortal AI.

It would be amusing to ask this AI how long it will live.

Keith

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 7:51 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Claude AI has just been upgraded to version 3 models.
> The free version seems to be Claude 3 Sonnet.
> <https://claude.ai/chat/>
> I was impressed with the reply to a test question, even though it is not their highest intelligence model.
> BillK
>
> I asked -
> It seems strange that at some time I will die and the world will continue without me - please discuss this.
>
> Reply -
>
> The idea that the world will go on without us after we die can indeed feel very strange and unsettling. It challenges our sense of self-importance and the feeling that our consciousness is central to existence itself. A few perspectives on this:
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> Impermanence
>
> From a rational, detached point of view, the continuation of the world without us is simply the nature of impermanence. All things, including our lives, are transient. We are tiny sparks in the vastness of space and time. The universe existed for billions of years before we arrived, and it will continue long after we're gone. Embracing our impermanence can instill a sense of humility.
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> Significance
>
> However, this impermanence is exactly what makes our lives so precious and significant. If we lived forever, there would be no urgency to find meaning, no motivation to leave a positive legacy. Our finite window of existence forces us to ponder our purpose and impact.
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> Legacy
>
> While our physical selves will cease, our actions, ideas, and influence can endure through the ripples we create in the world during our lifetimes. We live on through the lives we've touched, the knowledge we've shared, the art we've created.
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> Shift in Perspective
>
> From our egoic, individualistic perspective, death seems like an ending. But many philosophies pose that our sense of self is an illusion - we are inseparable from the cosmic whole. From this vantage point, death is not an ending but a transformation, a rejoining of our universal source.
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> Mystery
>
> No matter how we conceptualize it, the reality is that we cannot know for certain what happens after we die. This great mystery has sparked religious/spiritual beliefs across cultures. Perhaps some part of us does live on, in a realm beyond the physical world we know.
>
> While unsettling, the fact that life is finite and the world outlasts us is simply the harsh truth we must reconcile ourselves with. It is by coming to terms with our mortality that we can more fully embrace and appreciate the journeys we get to take in this world, for however brief a time.
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