Deepseek used for all examples. This is an attempt at showing how the applicant's ability to build an 'ontology' by linking various concepts, and selectively choosing quotes, can allow the model to develop its own understanding of the ideas, using language and terminology that is not always consistent with the literature, but under the interpretation of the user is correct and can guide research.
The main point of these explorations is just to show that LLMs, e.g. DeepSeek can not only produce nonsense, which tricks you into believing things that are false, but that it is the best way to explore your own subjective understanding of a topic, before you have the proper terminology to express what you mean. LLMs allow you to express your ideas as they are in the language you understand them to be. The ability of these LLMs to interpollate the real world is limited and innacurate, yet its ability to understand a definition of a word as set by the user, and then to build an ontologie around that is key to using them properly.
| Document Title | Description | Download Link |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Land: Singularity Compression | Philosophical exploration of Nick Land's concepts of technological singularity and time compression | Download PDF |
| Gettier cases and JTB | An AI-assisted exploration of links between metaphysics, philosophy of language and Gettier cases | Download PDF |
| Nick Land: Selected Writings | Collection of writings and analyses related to Nick Land's philosophical works | Download PDF |
| Utilitarianism and Actualism | Examination of utilitarian ethics with focus on actualism | Download PDF |
An example of trying to use a model to understand a thinker, expressing their literary style, mediated by the model. This document explores Nick Land's philosophical perspectives on technological singularity, compression of time/information, and accelerationism.
Developing a thesis from scratch, carefully selecting and feeding in quotes for the model to reflect back and understand. There are issues with the model's use of the proper philosophical terms here, but it is more important that it is able to engage with the ideas as presetned by the user
Analysis and excerpts from Nick Land's philosophical writings, particularly focusing on accelerationism and critique of traditional philosophical frameworks.
Conversations about utilitarian ethics with a focus on actualism - the view that moral evaluation should consider what would actually happen rather than what could happen.