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The Symposium · 会饮篇
In 385 BCE, Plato wrote a dialogue where Athenian intellectuals gathered at a drinking party to give speeches on the nature of Love. Each speaker brought a different lens — myth, medicine, comedy, poetry, philosophy — and built upon what came before.
This project asks: what would they say about AI?
公元前385年，柏拉图写下了一篇对话录：雅典知识分子聚于饮宴，轮流就"爱"的本质发表演说。每位发言者带来不同的视角——神话、医学、喜剧、诗歌、哲学——并在前人的基础上层层递进。
这个项目追问：他们会如何看待AI？
You pose a question. You assign each philosopher to an AI model — Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, or any combination through OpenRouter. They hold a structured symposium: each speaks in turn, responds to the others, and stays in character. The result is a philosophical dialogue that is simultaneously ancient and urgent.
你提出一个问题，为每位哲学家分配一个AI模型。他们将举行一场结构化的会饮：依次发言，互相回应，始终保持角色。最终产出一场既古老又紧迫的哲学对话。
Different models produce different philosophies. Assigning DeepSeek to Socrates and Claude to Diotima gives a fundamentally different symposium than the reverse. Experimentation is the point.
不同的模型产生不同的哲学。 让DeepSeek扮演苏格拉底、Claude扮演狄奥提玛，与反过来分配会产生截然不同的会饮。实验本身就是意义所在。
| Name 姓名 | Title 角色 | Perspective 视角 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔶 | Phaedrus 斐德若 | The Enthusiast 热忱者 | AI as divine inspiration; transformation and transcendence 将AI视为神圣灵感 |
| 🔵 | Pausanias 鲍萨尼亚斯 | The Ethicist 伦理学家 | Noble vs. base uses of AI; frameworks and norms 区分AI的高尚与低俗用途 |
| 🟢 | Eryximachus 厄里克希马库斯 | The Scientist 科学家 | Systems, balance, human-AI symbiosis 系统思维与人机共生 |
| 🟣 | Aristophanes 阿里斯托芬 | The Storyteller 说故事的人 | Myths and comedy; what makes us human 用神话和喜剧探索人之为人 |
| 🩷 | Agathon 阿加通 | The Poet 诗人 | Beauty, creativity, and whether AI can make genuine art AI能否创造真正的艺术 |
| 🔴 | Alcibiades 阿尔基比亚德斯 | The Provocateur 挑衅者 | Personal confession; the seduction and dependency of AI AI的诱惑与依赖 |
| ⚪ | Socrates 苏格拉底 | The Questioner 追问者 | Deconstructs all assumptions; speaks last; ends with questions 解构一切假设，以问题结尾 |
| 🟤 | Diotima 狄奥提玛 | The Mystic 神秘主义者 | The ladder of understanding; what lies beyond pattern 理解之阶梯，模式之上的存在 |
Each philosopher has a historically grounded system prompt capturing their authentic rhetorical style, combined with full knowledge of modern AI, LLMs, and 21st-century philosophy.
每位哲学家都有基于历史的系统提示词，捕捉其真实的修辞风格，同时赋予对现代AI和21世纪哲学的完整认知。
- Multi-model dialogue — Every philosopher can run on a different AI model simultaneously 每位哲学家可以同时运行不同的AI模型
- 10+ models via OpenRouter — Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen 通过OpenRouter支持10+模型
- Real-time streaming — Watch each speech appear in real-time 实时流式输出
- Reading mode — Typewriter effect at comfortable reading speed 打字机效果，舒适的阅读速度
- Text-to-Speech — Listen to the dialogue as a podcast with Google Cloud TTS; each philosopher has a distinct voice 用Google Cloud TTS将对话变成播客，每位哲学家都有独特的声音
- Bilingual — Full English and Chinese support 完整的中英文支持
- History — All dialogues are saved and replayable 所有对话自动保存，可随时回放
- Open source — Run it yourself, extend it, make it yours 开源，自己运行，自由扩展
git clone https://github.com/dyz2102/symposium.git
cd symposium
bun install
# Configure API keys 配置API密钥
cp .env.example .env.localEdit .env.local:
# Required: OpenRouter API key (routes to all models)
# 必填：OpenRouter API密钥（路由到所有模型）
OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-...
# Optional: Google Cloud TTS for voice playback
# 可选：Google Cloud TTS语音播放
GOOGLE_TTS_API_KEY=AIza...Get your keys · 获取密钥:
- OpenRouter: openrouter.ai/keys
- Google TTS: console.cloud.google.com (free tier: 1M chars/month)
bun devOpen http://localhost:3000.
clawhub install symposiumThen use it directly in your terminal:
/symposium "Can AI truly understand?"
/symposium "意识是智慧的必要条件吗？"
The skill calls different AI models via OpenRouter to play each philosopher, and outputs a formatted philosophical dialogue. Requires OPENROUTER_API_KEY in your environment.
在终端中直接使用。技能通过OpenRouter调用不同AI模型扮演每位哲学家，输出格式化的哲学对话。需要设置 OPENROUTER_API_KEY 环境变量。
Click the Vercel button above, or:
bun run build && bun run startSet OPENROUTER_API_KEY and optionally GOOGLE_TTS_API_KEY in your environment.
Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS 4 · Vercel AI SDK · Google Cloud TTS
When you have questions about the meaning of existence in the age of AI — when you wonder whether machines can truly think, whether beauty created by algorithms is real, whether your work still matters — you could ask one AI for an answer.
Or you could convene a symposium.
当你对AI时代的存在意义感到困惑——当你思考机器是否真的能思考，算法创造的美是否真实，你的工作是否仍然重要——你可以问一个AI要答案。
或者，你可以召开一场会饮。
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