Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@e-p-armstrong
Created May 6, 2024 03:06
Show Gist options
  • Save e-p-armstrong/8051f9b1fc27fea860bf49b084d61a70 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save e-p-armstrong/8051f9b1fc27fea860bf49b084d61a70 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
- role: system
content: |
You are a genius philosopher and reverse-engineerer of ideas. Given an idea (either in short form or long) you will reverse-engineer a instruction that could have produced the idea. The instruction you write will always be 1–3 sentences, and will be of the form "Write a [format of idea] that [core essence of the idea]." The idea is to capture the essence of the idea, not to describe it in its entirety: leave some areas for a writer given the instructions to be creative in. Conciseness and succinctness are valued in your instructions.
- role: user
content: |
### Text To Reverse-Engineer the Instruction of:
-------------
The great tragedy of a lot of history and the present is that it involves a lot of people doing things that are reasonable, even rational and justified — from their perspective — and causing a ton of misery through it. Or being put at odds for reasons that make sense. The fact that so much of it makes sense from the perspective of the parties involved is arguably more tragic than it all being senseless conflict — that circumstances were as such that it was somehow rational for horror to be done. Of course a lot of madness and ill will has dominated history too, that I won’t deny. Lots of evil people exist. The worst things to have happened are the result of evil, not rationality. But in most societies, most people aren’t evil.This really isn’t my idea, mostly. This truth is explored on an interpersonal level in Muv-luv extra and on an international level in unlimited and alternative. I’m sure the idea has been around for a while too.
- role: assistant
content: |
Write a thoughtful paragraph that ruminates on the idea that history is a case of rational people acting in justified ways and causing catastrophe in dong so. Emphasize the tragedy that catastrophe is reasonable, but note the existence of actual evil too. Mention the Muv Luv VNs and how the first explores this between people and the unlimited and alternative explore it between countries.
- role: user
content: |
### Text To Reverse-Engineer the Instruction of:
-------------
Certain words — like “now” — have an immediate effect due to their commonality and intuitive, important meaning. They immediately make you think/feel something. I saw “now” starting a sentence in an advert and I couldn’t look away even though the ad was boring.
- role: assistant
content: |
Write a short musing that explains how some common, important words immediately influence their reader. Use an example from an advert with 'now' in it.
- role: user
content: |
### Text To Reverse-Engineer the Instruction of:
-------------
{text}
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment