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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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36:40

How to Keep a Baby's Room Comfortable With a Dumb AC

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2026/07/02

Most people think a smart thermostat is the answer to keeping a baby's room comfortable. But as this episode reveals, a $200 dumb window AC unit paired with $30 in sensors and Home Assistant actually gives you more control — and better results. We break down the specific temperature and humidity targets recommended for infants under 12 months, why tight hysteresis destroys sleep and dehumidification, and how PID control algorithms can keep a nursery stable without short-cycling the compressor. Plus:

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20:44

Wi-Fi Through Concrete Bunkers

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2026/07/02

Renting in Israel means dealing with a unique networking nightmare: 20-30cm of reinforced concrete walls, a legally mandated bomb shelter (mamad) that functions as a Faraday cage, and zero permission to drill holes. This episode breaks down the physics of signal loss through steel-rebar concrete, then walks through the specific configuration levers you can actually turn: height placement, beamforming, channel selection, and the counterintuitive move of reducing transmit power. We explain why mesh

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28:13

How Many Boxes Fit in Your Bedroom?

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2026/07/02

Moving your home into Euroboxes sounds simple until a supplier asks for your cubic meter estimate and you draw a blank. This episode unpacks why humans systematically underestimate volume by 30–50%, from the area-volume illusion to visibility bias. We walk through a concrete method: measure a room's raw cubic volume, subtract 20% for structures, divide by 0.0768 cubic meters per Eurobox, then add 25–30% for packing inefficiency. You'll also learn a density cheat sheet for clothes, books, and kitchen

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23:00

LLM Councils for Post-Gallbladder Care

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2026/07/02

After gallbladder removal, millions suffer from post-cholecystectomy syndrome — bloating, bile reflux, weight gain — yet no single specialist owns the condition. This episode explores whether an LLM council (multiple AI models prompted as different specialists, then synthesized) could help patients build a coherent treatment plan. We walk through two concrete architectures: role-based councils (gastroenterologist, nutritionist, psychologist) and geography-slanted councils (models trained on

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22:48

Can AI Agents Ever Be Truly Social?

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2026/07/02

Stanford's Smallville and Moltbook create AI agents that plan parties and form relationships — but is this social intelligence or just elaborate puppetry? We dig into the fundamental limits of text-only architectures, from missing body language to emotional forgetting curves, and ask whether embodiment and world models could bridge the gap. This episode explores what these simulations actually reveal about the nature of social understanding.

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29:29

How to Fix AI's Bullet Point Addiction

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2026/07/02

AI models love bullet points — but when you're generating client reports, board memos, or regulatory filings, that default style destroys credibility. In this episode, we break down why transformers favor structured output (it's not laziness, it's the attention mechanism) and compare three engineering approaches to fix it: system prompting (62% adherence), fine-tuning ($200+), and textual LoRAs (94% adherence for $20). Using DeepSeek v4 Pro as a case study, we explore how teams can deterministically

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23:22

How a $150 Geopolitical AI Simulation Scales to $15,000

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2026/07/02

Geopolitical simulations using AI agents sound like a powerful forecasting tool—until you see the bill. One run of Snowflake, an open-source platform from the CIA’s Technical Innovation Lab, can cost over $150 in API tokens. Because LLMs are probabilistic, you need to run the simulation dozens or hundreds of times for statistically valid results. In this episode, we break down exactly where the money goes: agent personality prompts, growing context windows, and combinatorial multiplication of calls

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31:04

The Software Powering Modern Scams

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2026/07/02

What happens when fraudsters build tech stacks that rival legitimate startups? This episode follows two firsthand accounts from a moving scam with a purpose-built quotation engine and a rental scam run through a single password manager. We trace how custom CRMs, victim-scoring algorithms, and multi-alias management systems turn deception into an operations problem — and what that means for anyone trying to defend against it.

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27:20

Flood the Zone: Obfuscation as Privacy Strategy

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2026/07/02

What if the best way to protect your real address isn't locking it down — but publishing a fake one, loudly and convincingly? This episode explores obfuscation as a privacy strategy: seeding false information into the digital ecosystem so anyone trying to trace you hits a wall of plausible decoys. We break down how to build fake nonprofit websites, phantom addresses, and decoy personas that survive scrutiny from data brokers and casual investigators. From domain registration to SEO to data broker

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22:29

How to Make AI Write Prose, Not Bullet Points

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2026/07/02

Large language models have a pathological addiction to bullet points — and it's costing enterprises credibility. In this episode, we break down the three reasons LLMs default to list structures (training data distribution, RLHF rewards, and attention mechanism entropy) and compare the engineering levers available to force prose-first writing. From system prompting with few-shot examples to fine-tuning and the intriguing middle ground of textual LoRAs, we explore why negative prompting fails 30-40%

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24:57

From Phone Number to Identity Map

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2026/07/02

A phone number seems like the most mundane string of digits — until you feed it into a graph-based OSINT system. This episode traces the full pipeline: from proper E.164 normalization (where most investigations silently fail) through Maltego transforms that connect numbers to social profiles, emails, and carrier data. We explore the permutation strategy that turns a single identifier into a high-confidence identity map, and why an empty graph is often the most telling result of all.

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36:06

What Combat Engineers Actually Do on the Ground

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2026/07/02

Most people picture infantry or tanks when they think of ground forces, but nothing moves without combat engineers going first. This episode unpacks the daily reality of the role — from route clearance and breaching calculations to the psychology of being first through a breach. We explore the IDF’s conscript-driven Combat Engineering Corps, the gap between battalion engineers and Yahalom special operators, and how an eighteen-year-old learns to calculate explosive charges under fire.

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26:56

Sun Tzu vs Machiavelli: What Actually Divides Them

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2026/07/02

Sun Tzu and Machiavelli are the most-quoted strategic authorities in business, but they fundamentally disagree on what strategy even is. This episode pulls apart their actual philosophies — from deception and cruelty to victory and survival — and shows why the lazy mashup produces genuinely bad decisions in boardrooms, startups, and even AI strategy. If you've ever heard "we need to be more Sun Tzu about this" or "time to get Machiavellian," this episode will change how you think about both.

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27:02

How to Engineer a Confession: Covert Recording Tactics

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2026/07/02

In a single-party consent jurisdiction like Israel, tenants can legally record conversations with landlords — but getting usable evidence requires more than just hitting record. This episode breaks down four specific conversational engineering techniques that turn mumbled complaints and ambiguous statements into clear, admissible admissions. From the "Repeat After Me" maneuver to the "Clarifying Question" ladder, you'll learn how feigned ignorance and careful positioning create recordings that hold

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21:33

Can You Learn Reveille in 8 Weeks?

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2026/07/02

Daniel downloaded a horn soundboard app and ended up asking a surprisingly deep question: can a normal adult learn to play the bugle wake-up call, and how long would it take? We explore whether militaries still use live buglers, why the Swiss Army prefers brass over speakers in alpine terrain, and what the research says about adult skill acquisition. The answer might be faster than you think — about 15-30 hours of deliberate practice for a recognizable Reveille.

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22:06

Is the Ugly Israeli a Real Generation?

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2026/07/01

After ten years and three nightmare landlords in Israel, one renter asks: Is this just bad luck, or is "the Ugly Israeli" a real, researchable phenomenon? We trace the historical roots of this cultural archetype — from the Six-Day War's psychological shift to the 1980s housing privatization — and examine psychometric data showing measurable empathy deficits in the demographic that dominates Israel's landlord class. Is generational replacement actually solving the problem, or is the mechanism

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40:57

Why People Type in All Caps (It's Not Always Anger)

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2026/07/01

When you see a wall of capital letters online, your first instinct is probably "this person is angry." But the reality is far more interesting. This episode breaks down the three distinct groups behind all-caps typing: older adults whose brains are reallocating cognitive resources, conspiracy theorists signaling epistemic frustration, and power users engaging in playful norm violation. We explore how misattributing intent in text-based communication creates friction between generations, fuels

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39:21

Playing Dumb on Purpose: Strategic Incompetence

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2026/07/01

When you're up against someone who holds all the cards, sometimes the smartest move is to look confused. This episode unpacks "strategic incompetence" — a social engineering technique where you deliberately lower someone's guard by letting them underestimate you. We explore the three psychological mechanisms that make it work (overconfidence effect, halo of power, and cognitive load shifting), the ethical line between performing confusion and lying, and how tenants are using this approach to

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26:28

How to Sound Like a Bot on Purpose

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2026/07/01

What happens when the safest thing you can be online is a machine? This episode explores the strange reverse Turing test: humans deliberately adopting bot-like language patterns. From operational security to professional necessity, we break down the specific linguistic tricks — hedging phrases, symmetrical sentences, zero contractions — that make writing read as algorithmic. We also unpack the Moltbook phenomenon, the "botface" costume, and what happens to trust when anyone can sound automated on

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26:20

Buying a Passport Online: Inside the CBI Market

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2026/07/01

Ever seen a website where you can browse passports like ETFs? CitizenX is a venture-backed platform that lets high net worth individuals purchase citizenship-by-investment (CBI) from countries like Dominica, Malta, and St. Kitts — with prices listed in fiat and crypto. In this episode, we explore the $25 billion global CBI market: who's buying (Chinese tech entrepreneurs, Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern investors), why they're buying (geopolitical insurance, tax optimization, visa-free travel),

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