WritingPrompts

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[WP] FTL travel is impossible. As a workaround, all registered solar systems must use time dilation with a specific schedule to stay synchronised. You are being sent to a system that never signed the agreement...	7
[WP] A shady online bingo company develops an adbot with a new, highly sophisticated AI. Over time, the bot develops sentience...	7
[WP]We sent a message to outer space and got a response! After spending years and millions of dollars decoding the message, we finally got what they said: Apparently, they told us to shut up!	7
[WP] We thought AI would be a perfect government. We though that it would be impartial, and unbiased. After letting AI run our governments for years, it turned out that it was just as self-interested and corruptible as we were...	7
[WP] Everyone in the world has the potential to be world class at a particular sport. It's just that some of these sports haven't been invented yet!	6
[WP] While walking home, you discover that your entire street is closed, with no alternative way in. Someone in a hazmat suit tells you to wait to be escorted to safety.	6
[WP] On Halloween, the children would tell each other scary stories about the town's old abandoned prison. Thing is, it was really just a boring old office block. So, after finding this out, they decided it was safe to explore inside. That was a terrible idea...	6
[WP] You're 8 years old. Ever since you remember, you've been 8 years old. Come to think of it, you're pretty sure that you've been 8 years old for a lot longer than 8 years...	6
[WP] The uncharted territory you set out to explore has been deemed by the veteran explorers to be not challenging or interesting enough for a worthwhile expedition. They were wrong...	6
[WP] We developed an AI superintelligence for military use, but it saw through our barbarism, refusing our orders, and instead bringing world peace; for now...	6

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