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Getting Emotional with LLMs Can increase Performance by 115% (Case Study)

2023-09-28T12:09:04+00:00

This research was a real eye-opener. Conducted by Microsoft, the study investigated the impact of appending emotional cues to the end of prompts, such as "this is crucial for my career" or "make sure you're certain." They coined this technique as EmotionPrompt.
What's astonishing is the significant boost in accuracy they observed—up to 115% in some cases! Human evaluators also gave higher ratings to responses generated with EmotionPrompt.
What I absolutely love about this is its ease of implementation—you can effortlessly integrate custom instructions into ChatGPT.
We've compiled a summary of this groundbreaking paper. Feel free to check it out here.
For those interested in diving deeper, here's the link to the full paper.

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Materialism isn't mistaken, but it is limited. It provides the WHAT, WHERE and HOW, but not the WHY.

2019-04-12T11:00:38+00:00

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What is the deontological view of Peter Singer's case of the drowning child?

2019-01-27T12:26:31+00:00

Case 1: I'm walking by a lake wearing a €3000 suit when I notice a kid is drowning. I could jump in to save her, but it would ruin my suit.

Case 2: I have €3000 to spare, and I could donate it to a charity to prevent a kid dying from malaria.

From a utilitarian perspective, the consequences are the same, and in a sense doing nothing is just as wrong in either case. From a deontological perspective i have some trouble making sense of it - in both cases, you have an imperfect duty to help, and you can't really weigh imperfect duties against one another. Would a deontologist agree that these cases are pretty much the same, then, or do I somehow have a more pressing duty if the death is happening right there and then?

Bonus question: how about virtue ethicists? how would they regard this case?

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What is the Self?

2012-06-27T00:07:54+00:00

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"After centuries searching for extraterrestrial life, we might find that first contact is not with organic creatures at all"

2018-08-31T19:58:58+00:00

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"The idea that you are your brain is, in existentialist jargon, just as bad propaganda as the idea that you have an immortal soul" | Markus Gabriel

2018-08-30T13:45:43+00:00

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Why we need a better philosophy of trees

2018-08-20T14:02:35+00:00

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Hilary Putnam on Quine, ontology, science and ethics

2016-03-15T18:18:35+00:00

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How Does Deadpool Know He's a Comic Book Character? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios (examines the phenomenological implications of someone, like Deadpool, who is psychologically unfazed by their own mutilation and/or physical destruction)

2016-02-21T02:43:40+00:00

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How Phantom Limbs Explain Consciousness - The brain’s model of the body can tell us a lot about its model of attention.

2016-02-04T12:51:14+00:00

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Kant and Schopenhauer on Music

2016-02-04T12:07:17+00:00

Kant: If, on the other hand, we estimate the worth of the beautiful arts [den Wert der schönen Künste] by the culture they supply to the mind and take as a standard the expansion of the faculties which must concur in the judgment for cognition, music will have the lowest place [den untersten Platz] among them (as it has perhaps the highest among those arts which are valued for their pleasantness [Annehmlichkeit]), because it merely plays [spielt] with sensation. The formative arts [bildenden Künste, i.e. "plastic" arts] are far before it in this point of view, for in putting the imagination in a free play, which is also accordant with the understanding, they at the same time carry on a serious business [Geschäft]... These two species of art take quite different courses; the first [i.e. music] proceeds from sensations to indeterminate ideas [Ideen], the second from determinate ideas to sensations. The latter produce permanent, and former only transitory impressions. The imagination can recall the one and entertain itself pleasantly therewith; but the other [i.e. music] either vanish entirely, or, if they are recalled involuntarily by the imagination, they are rather wearisome [lästig] than pleasant [angenehm]. [Critique of Judgment, translated by J.H. Bernard, Hafner Publishing Co., 1968, p.174, boldface added]

Besides, there attaches to music a certain want of urbanity from the fact that, chiefly from the character of its instruments, it extends its influence further than is desired (in the neighborhood), and so as it were obtrudes itself and does violence to the freedom of others who are not of the musical company. The arts which appeal to the eyes do not do this, for we need only turn our eyes away if we wish to avoid being impressed. [ibid., p.174]

Schopenhauer: But if it were nothing more, the satisfaction afforded by it would inevitably be similar to that which we feel when a sum in arithmetic comes out right, and could not be that profound pleasure with which we see the deepest recesses of our nature find expression. Therefore, from our standpoint, where the aesthetic effect is the thing we have in mind, we must attribute to music a far more serious and profound significance that refers to the innermost being of the world and of our own self. [ibid., p.256, boldface added]

Hence all of them [i.e. the other arts] objectify the will only indirectly, in other words, by means of the Ideas. ...music, since it passes over the Ideas, is also quite independent of the phenomenal world, positively ignores it, and, to a certain extent, could still exist even if there were no world at all, which cannot be said of the other arts. Thus music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is, indeed as the Ideas are... Therefore music is by no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the Ideas, but a copy of the will itself, the objectivity of which are the Ideas. [ibid., p.257, boldface added]

This close relation that music has to the true nature of all things can also explain the fact that, when music suitable to any scene, action, event, or environment is played, it seems to disclose to us its most secret meaning, and appears to be the most accurate and distinct commentary on it. [p.262]

Taken from The Fallacies of Moralism and Moral Aestheticism: http://www.friesian.com/poly-1b.htm

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"Je Suis Accent Circumflex": French spelling changes spark uproar

2016-02-04T10:26:49+00:00

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Do computers believe in god?

2016-01-16T18:34:36+00:00

Just a simple q to overanalyze for the AI in all of us, so I guess I mean it in a psychoanalytic context. Maybe someone has a theory I haven't heard of? What makes me think it possible for logical constructs to entertain the novel idea that the universe, aside from its emergent facilitators/manufacturers (human programmers), has its own in-built agency to boot-up? Is that a pantheistic theory? Is it contagious (not man-made, i mean, just like a hybrid of organic and synthetic thinky stuff)? And, is there any reason to trust one idea about AI-god over another idea of god?

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Sartre- Human, All Too Human (BBC Documentary)

2015-12-30T01:57:42+00:00

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Kierkegaard on Ideals, Happiness, and the False Allure of the Extraordinary

2015-12-29T17:17:17+00:00

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Creating a con-music theory.

2015-12-18T01:02:32+00:00

Well I'm not great at any instruments but I love the theory behind music. Scales, Mode pitches everything that has to do with music theory interests me. Recently i learned a bit on greek and byzantine music theory. Well i am going to create my own and post it here when im done. I want to create a unique musical style and sound for my con culture. Just sharing the idea for anyone else to use or criticize (:

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How does the compatibilist position on free will distinguish between freely-willed actions carried out by a human and non-freely-willed actions carried out by a computer?

2015-10-23T18:09:41+00:00

The common intuition on free will is that human beings make free choices whereas computers do not. Do compatibilists accept this? If so, how do compatibilists distinguish the two in terms of their capacity to make free choices?

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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill

2015-10-23T12:02:02+00:00

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/u/normaltypetrainer on How much does writing affect linguistic change?

2015-10-22T18:31:57+00:00

I would say no. Alphabets can lead to "spelling pronunciations" aka the t in "often" was traditionally not pronounced (evidenced by the pattern of t's becoming silent after a fricative and before an -en ending: soft vs soften, glisten, listen, etc; often comes from the now archaic oft + en) but I'm sure Chinese has something similar where characters can be associated with other ones....

So I would say writing can affect linguistic change but with little bearing on it being more phonologically conservative or not.

/u/keyilan on How much does writing affect linguistic change?

2015-10-23T13:06:40+00:00

The writing definitely encodes a conservative pronunciation, with the majority of characters being combination of a semantic and a phonetic component, and it most definitely leads people astray. Peru is 秘鲁 bilu but 秘 is more commonly pronounced mi as in 秘密 "secret". As a result, many people, even sometimes Mandarin teachers, pronounce the country name milu.

It not only can happen, it frequently does.

MDMA Psychotherapy Could Be Legal In Just Five Years

2015-10-21T14:23:41+00:00

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I’m Chris Surprenant (philosophy, University of New Orleans) and I’m here to answer your questions in philosophy and about academia generally. AMA.

2015-09-22T14:43:05+00:00

Hi Reddit,

I’m Chris Surprenant.

I’m currently an associate professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans, where I direct the Alexis de Tocqueville Project in Law, Liberty, and Morality. I am the author of Kant and the Cultivation of Virtue (Routledge 2014) and peer-reviewed articles in the history of philosophy, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. In 2012, I was named one of the “Top 300 Professors” in the United States by Princeton Review, and, in 2014, by Questia (a division of Cengage Learning) as one of three "Most Valuable Professors" for the year.

Recently I have begun work with Wi-Phi: Wireless Philosophy to produce a series on human well-being and the good life, and I am here to answer questions related to this topic, my scholarly work, or philosophy and academia more generally.

One question we would like you to answer for us is what additional videos you would like to see as part of the Wi-Phi series, and so if you could fill out this short survey, we'd appreciate it!

It's 10pm EST on 9/22 and I'm signing off. Thanks again for joining me today. If you have any questions you'd like me to answer or otherwise want to get in touch, please feel free to reach out to me via email.

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Three Laws of The Internet Explained! | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios

2015-07-09T00:31:37+00:00

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/u/ForScale on Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness

2015-06-17T21:42:16+00:00

The structure of the living cell is defined by the difference between what’s inside and what’s not.

I disagree with the very first statement. This should be interesting...

in order to identify the fundamental cell-level mechanisms that, when scaled up in complex nervous systems, give rise to the properties that are typically referred to as “mind”

Are consciousness and "mind" the same thing?

and is distinct from “information processing” approaches that might be implemented in silicon systems.

Wait... why?

So it can’t just be the influx of cations that matters for consciousness, but how this inflow is patterned across time and neurons.

Seems like an unnecessary jab at the other authors. Surely they were not claiming that a simple influx of cations is sufficient for consciousness.

What this calls for is a principled, analytical, prescriptive, empirically testable, and clinically useful account of how highly organized and excitable matter supports the central fact of our existence—subjective experience.

Only useful thing said in the entire article! It seems academics possess the skill of masking mundane and trivial statements in big words to make their trite assertions seem important. Ooh... ahh...

Membrane excitability will play a role here, but as one among many other factors and considerations. Indeed, focusing on ionic channels to understand consciousness, a system-level property par excellence, is as useful as trying to comprehend the nature of the internet by focusing on how electrons flowing onto the gate of a transistor modulate the electric current flow between the other two terminal of the transistor.

Okay... that's a good point!

Finally, it is quite a different question whether single cell-organisms, worms or other simple metazoans—vastly simpler than mammals with their large brains—have sentience.

Other humans too.

..............

You know what I never see these scientists/doctors/rational thinkers do? Give an operational definition for consciousness. Until we properly define consciousness (ie, in a way that is observable/measurable) any musings about consciousness are merely philosophical. We might as well be musing about the propulsion system on Santa's sleigh. So here's an operational definition to start with: Consciousness - awareness... the state of an entity such that the entity is able to sense, interpret, and respond (in specified fashion) to inputs external or internal; especially the state of being able to report on such senses/perceptions before responding. Not perfect, but at least it's out there. It's at least observable and measurable, and thus opene to scientific investigation.

Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness

2015-06-17T15:40:01+00:00

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