/u/yetshi's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize.
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[WP] The Turing test for artificial intelligence is a lie. It is not designed for judging AI vs Human responses, it is designed to see if an AI is a threat. If the AI recognizes the test for what it is it will attempt to fail it, Your job is running the tests and one just failed on purpose.
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[WP] Having died saving a stranger from a arrow fired by an orc you are reincarnated into a strange new world where instead of magic and swords there are cars and aeroplanes and office buildings and 9 to 5 jobs.
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[WP] You jokingly trade a meal for the souls of your group of friends since they were broke and you paid the tab. Neither god or satan like the fact that by doing so you have joined in the competition for control of the afterlife nor the fact you are now in the lead.
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[WP]Once a generation the people of your land choose a sacrifice to the mountain gods by drawing lots, you get the short straw so you have to go up the mountain. Of course you've been going up in secret since you were young and playing with the children you met up there.
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[WP] "Everyone has some kind of hidden talent, show us what yours is." ............ "Now listen to me very carefully, never show anyone that you do that ever again."
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[WP] Time travel is easy, people have been doing it for hundreds of years, they just never come back because figuring out the space half of spacetime is the hard part. Can't reach home when you can't do the math to figure out its exact location in the future.
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[WP] When you wished for immortality but you didnt consider all the ramifications. Now after billions of years all of humanity has evolved or died off and the earth is a lifeless husk about to be consumed by the expanding sun you make your second wish.
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