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Thanks. I guess I have no shortage of purely creative material it's possible to consume, but do have a distinct shortage of creative material that has enough structure corresponding to our world that it's possible to map onto other topics, or other readings into it.

From that point of view, the two examples that seemed the most promising where 4 (fictional conversation) and 2 (time flows backward), but the results I got were anything but novel: the fictional conversation hit the usual tropes, with nothing particularly related to ancient Greek philosophy or to modern science specifically, and for some reason the backwards time world still had meals ordered in breakfast/lunch/dinner sequence. Nice for essays from an elementary schooler (or an AI?), but nothing one would wish to pay attention to read.

On the other hand, at least the backwards time response reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rVHr6OwjI , which did meet my criteria for interesting when I first ran into it, so there's that...

(note that "Entropic Time" has multiple possible tangential successors, based on the various details in its interpretation. that's a sense in which it contrasts to the —to my perception— sterility of the AI responses)

Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that I found "Entropic Time" to be a strong move in a Hessian Glass Bead Game, but I guess at this point instead of quibbling about the weakness of the AI moves, I should be impressed that it plays at all.

cf https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/bc/35/67bc35746db0758b5ab4...