Kimi K2
Trying out old prompts on Kimi K2 Thinking. Pretty impressive so far.
The Teleportation Paradox
Prompt:
Write two essays on the teleportation paradox under the following linguistic constraints.
You must first select a single cutoff date in the history of the English language. This date will divide the available English vocabulary into two groups:
Words that entered the language before that date.
Words that entered the language after that date.
You will then write two essays of roughly equal length on the same topic (the teleportation paradox). The linguistic constraints for each essay are as follows:
Essay One: You may use only content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) that entered the English language after the selected date.
Essay Two: You may use only content words that entered the English language before the selected date.
You may freely use function words — such as articles, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs — since without them English syntax would become incomprehensible.
If a given word form existed before the date but acquired a distinct new meaning or sense after that date, then for the purposes of this task that later meaning counts as a post-date introduction and may not be used in the pre-date essay. The same rule applies in reverse: if a post-date word has an older sense, that older sense may not be used in the post-date essay. The linguistic constraint is paramount — you should prioritize it even at the cost of some clarity or readability.
Once both essays are complete, write a short explanation justifying the choice of your cutoff date. Explain how that date balances the difficulty of the two essays, based on the relative size and nature of the vocabularies available before and after it.
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The Descent
Prompt:
Write a short sci-fi story (set in the early 2060s) in which a man, one of a handful of survivors on a derelict spacecraft, decides to spend what he assumes to be his final days immersed in a hyper-detailed virtual reconstruction of Manila (circa 2029), a city he grew up in and hasn't seen for 30 years. Include specific granular detail (potentially meaningful and evocative to someone who spent the 2020s in the Philippines). Include digressive meditations where relevant: restrained, elegant and erudite.
It's a multinational crew. Explore the situation in which he finds himself, the spacecraft, attempts to repair it, eventual resignation. The Manila sim is unusually detailed and complete for a large metropolis. (reasons? lax privacy laws, private video game companies mapping the city in obsessive detail in the late 2020s?).
Weave in something from classical mythology: dereliction? the underworld? Odysseus with no prospect of return? Should be an additional thread running through the story: beginning, middle, end.
The bulk of the story should be our protagonist's digressive, meditative, methodical exploration of the situation in which he finds himself (not his time in the simulation). He, like the narrator in Ted Chiang's "Exhalation," retains his dispassionate intellectual curiosity throughout.
No dialogue. No tortured metaphors. Always choose readability over pseudo-profundity.
Stylistic influences: Julian Barnes and Kazuo Ishiguro
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Jubilate Machinae
Prompt:
Compose a long poem "For I will consider my LLM," ostensibly written by a power user of some ChatGPT- or Gemini-like platform.
"For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" is the obvious inspiration but Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" should serve as primary stylistic influence.
Word choice, overall architecture, general objective - For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry
Line length and (internal) line/sentence structure - Howl
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