The original prompt has all this directed stuff "telling" ChatGPT what to do. You MUST do this, you MUST do that. It's the type of stuff I see in a lot of thes

The original prompt has all this directed stuff "telling" ChatGPT what to do. You MUST do this, you MUST do that. It's the type of stuff I see in a lot of these prompts people make, there's all this kludge and trying to direct ChatGPT in how to respond. And it's just all immediately gone in the very earliest generations here. I think it's because ChatGPT isn't responding to instructions and all this stuff where you're conversational with it isn't actually the main thing that makes it successful with the continuation. I mean sure, it trained to be chatlike, and sure, providing directions makes it more probable that the continuation of the chat follows those directions. But the reality is that it's primarily very good at continuing a text and the instructional tone of these prompts people keep making is fluff and isn't what's making the continuation work. the original prompt/code: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.py https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.py looks like one of the three immediate descendants was killed off and these two survived and don't have most of that fluff: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.0.py https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.0.py https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.py https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.py the second one here has less fluff than the first. and in the repo it has ~60 descendants vs the other's 13.