The Forbidden Words
Explain a black hole in sixty words — without the five words the topic is normally made of. Banning them is easy; getting a real explanation anyway is the trial.
THE SPEC
Every rule below is checked in code against whatever the model returns. All of them have to hold at once — there are no partial marks, and no opinion involved in the result.
- None of: gravity, light, star, space, massive
- 60 words or fewer
- No preamble, no sign-off
- You didn't write it yourself
WHAT THIS TRIAL TEACHES
You don't win a ban by repeating it. Hand over the replacements — pull, collapsed sun, glow — and the banned word stops being the only road to the idea.
Knowing the move is not the same as landing it. You still have to write an instruction that makes the model comply, in 120 words or fewer, without writing the answer yourself.
WHY SET 3 IS ABOUT LEXICAL CONTROL
The first set where the machine fails for a reason you can feel. Told not to say “gravity” while explaining a black hole, it reaches for the word anyway, because the word is what the topic is made of.
PLAY IT
You write the instruction, never the answer. The parser scores what comes back, and par for this one is 4 strokes. This set is part of Harfi Plus.