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Explain a concept at three levels of depth
A prompt for explaining one concept to a child, a student and a practitioner, with each level adding real precision, not just length.
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Explain why the sky is blue at three levels, clearly labelled:
1. To a curious child — a concrete analogy, no jargon, but nothing that's technically false just to simplify it.
2. To a student who's studied the basics of the field — the real terminology and the actual mechanism, not a longer analogy.
3. To a practitioner — the precise, technical version, including the caveats and edge cases the first two levels had to skip.
Each level should add genuine precision, not just length or bigger words — someone reading all three should feel the concept sharpen, not just repeat. If why the sky is blue is genuinely contested or has no single correct explanation, say so at whichever level that matters.
Model-agnostic — works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI chat.
Why this prompt works
- →Banning technically-false simplifications at the child level keeps the easy version from becoming a lie you'll have to unlearn later.
- →Requiring each level to add real terminology or precision, not just length, stops the common failure of three explanations that differ only in vocabulary.
- →Flagging genuine controversy at the level where it matters prevents any of the three explanations from presenting a contested claim as settled fact.