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by firtoz 502 days ago
Well, that's part of the point, it somewhat resembles the thoughts, which should be enough of a kindling to ignite the thoughts of anyone with experience or imagination.

Now, what do you think Nietzsche would really say? You seem to be familiar with his thinking.

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It doesn't resemble the thoughts at all.

I'm not going to analyze your comment point by point, but RE: Nietzsche on consciousness, here are some links:

- https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/nietzsche-on-consciousness-and-t...

- https://people.bu.edu/pkatsa/Mind.pdf

- https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3db7d07f-a494-453b-8257-3a...

Can you try to spend a bit more effort maybe, for example address one of the most egregious inaccuracies?
1. He criticized the idea of the soul itself. Him saying that it's "difficult to define" makes no sense.

2. He was famously against alcohol, so him drinking a glass of wine makes no sense.

3. The will to power is a specific concept that he discusses in later works. It's not "the defining concept" as LLMs always seem to assume it is.

4. Ditto for overcoming, slave morality, and human all too human. Again, it is the LLM having a list of keywords and then assuming these keywords are indicative of the thinker. It is not using these words in any meaningful sense, or understanding what they mean.

It does this will pretty much all philosophers: assume their ideas are just the amalgamation of some vocabulary words on their Wikipedia page. Very rarely is that true.

5. He didn't say "we spent a millennia wrestling with the idea of gods, creating and killing them" and this makes no sense historically. The bulk of his philosophy is about the waning influence of Christianity and the vacuum of values this will present.

6. The characterization of him as this mustache-twirling, chuckling man is way off. But it is accurate to the "stereotype" in the public consciousness. By all accounts he was a quiet, polite person.

This is basically just a word salad using keywords from his works. Not much value here. It would be cool if such an app existed, but as of now, this response is not very insightful.

Time to throw Claude to the nearest bin