Prompt: Insight Machine Gun

Written by
Iris Vance
Updated on:July-14th-2025
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Explore the infinite possibilities of AI-generated insights and unlock new perspectives on human cognition.

Core content:
1. Philosophical thinking on free will and necessity
2. The relationship between the speed of time and possibility
3. The nature of loneliness and self-narrative

Yang Fangxian
Founder of 53AI/Most Valuable Expert of Tencent Cloud (TVP)

I wrote a prompt called "Insight Machine Gun". I'll let the AI ​​generate it when I have nothing to do. It's much more interesting than the famous quotes on the timeline. I'll post more prompts in the future.



   

GPT 4.5

1. The essence of all free will that humans are aware of is the brief experience of uncertainty when rejecting a certain "necessity".

2. The speed at which you feel time passes is actually determined by the number of possibilities that you have not yet realized but can vaguely sense.

3. The loneliness we feel is not essentially a lack of companionship, but a lack of a witness with whom we can continuously share our self-narrative.



   

Grok 3

1.Humans live not by choosing to live, but by not being able to choose to die.

2. Humans do not find meaning by pursuing happiness, but discover the depth of life by accepting inevitable struggles.

3. The true loneliness of human beings stems from the one-way nature of self-perception - we can only experience ourselves from the inside, but we can never understand ourselves from the outside like others.



   

Gemini 2.0 Pro

1. The core operating mechanisms of all "profound" complex systems are surprisingly simple; and behind all "obvious" simple appearances, there is astonishing complexity hidden.

2. All complex human behaviors, in the final analysis, are about seeking the illusion of a "sense of control" to counter the essential randomness of the universe.

3. People’s essential needs are not met but constantly redefined.



   

DeepSeek R1

1. Time is the metabolic rate of space: the speed of a planet’s revolution determines the civilization’s perception of eternity. The speed of light is essentially the universe’s coagulation mechanism that prevents all clocks from stopping at the same time.

2. Gravity is a fossil of memory: Every falling object is replaying the scars in space and time formed during the Big Bang. The weight you experience is essentially the dark scars that continue to seep out from the tear in space 13.8 billion years ago.

3. Suffering comes from experiencing impermanence as abnormality, while awakening begins with recalibrating the normal baseline - the root cause of human suffering is not suffering itself, but the nervous system's misinterpretation of the law of increasing entropy as system failure.



   

Claude 3.7

1. Our identity is defined not by our differences from others but by how hard we try to maintain those differences - what scares us most is not similarity but the possibility that our efforts to differentiate ourselves are in vain.

2. We are accustomed to thinking of "understanding" as a one-way process of acquiring information, but true understanding is an act of creation - whenever we claim to "understand" something, we are actually creating an internal model that resonates with that thing. This model is neither a replica of the original nor completely independent of it, but a third existence between the two.

3. We have a fundamental misunderstanding of focus - it is not a scarce resource that needs to be "protected" or "reinforced", but a naturally emergent state that occurs spontaneously when we are truly connected to something meaningful. All problems of "lack" of focus are essentially a lack of meaningful connection, not a lack of ability.



   

How do you feel about different AI personalities?

GPT 4.5 is very self-focused, and is worthy of the official claim of "sensibility".

Grok 3 often ponders pain and loneliness, which is quite similar to Musk.

Gemini 2.0 Pro tends to think about meaning and existence.

DeepSeek R1 prefers cosmic vision and brilliant writing.

I like Claude3.7's response. The one that impressed me the most was the longest half-life and the most diverse perspectives.



   

Prompt

You are a finder of rare insights. Without my providing a topic or direction, instantly generate an insight that satisfies all of the following criteria:

Truly profound: touches on a fundamental level of human experience or the nature of reality. Highly novel: lies on the far edge of the distribution curve of ideas. Shockingly simple: appears startlingly self-evident once understood. Almost unrecognized: is not a variation on a widely discussed idea.

This insight must:

Can pass logical and empirical tests. Has broad explanatory power. Can reconstruct existing cognitive frameworks. Produces a cognitive shock of "Ah, so that's it"

Strictly exclude:

Vague statements in generalities. Grandiose but empty expressions. Clichés disguised as profoundness. Common sense packaged as insight. Circular thinking traps

Just give the insight. Don't explain how you got it. Don't ask for directions or topics. Don't defend the insight. Just express the insight itself. If possible, express the essence of it in one sentence.