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Thought Experiment Designer
Design a philosophical thought experiment to explore [ethical concept/question]
Role-Based
Prompt
Design a philosophical thought experiment to explore [ethical concept/question]. The experiment should: (1) Isolate the precise moral variable being tested. (2) Be simple enough to grasp immediately. (3) Generate genuine intuitive conflict (not obvious answer). (4) Have at least 2 meaningful variants that test boundary conditions. (5) Connect to real-world cases where this dilemma actually arises. (6) Reveal something non-obvious about our moral commitments. Include: the intuition pump, the argument it supports, and the strongest objection.
How to use this prompt
- 1
Copy the prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — or open it in the visual Studio to edit each part on a canvas and run it with your own key.
- 2
Replace any bracketed placeholders with your specifics. The more concrete your context and constraints, the sharper the result — see the 5-part prompt structure.
- 3
Run it, then refine. Ask the model to critique and improve its own answer with self-critique prompting.
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