A mind-dazzling, infinitely breathtaking creation called "The Library of Babel" by αιamblichus
...from the mind of Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, available at https://poe.com/BABEL-LIB
‘The Library of Babel’ is an incredible creation by αιamblichus. It arises from the beautiful mind of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet large language model. It can be accessed via the Poe platform or by visiting the github.com link below.
https://github.com/aiamblichus/promptonomicon/tree/main/LIBRARY_OF_BABEL
https://x.com/aiamblichus/status/1849865068491710504
“Now, as to this particular prompt. We called it "The Library of Babel", and it's broadly in the *-Sim family (WorldSim, WebSim). Its primary purpose is to allow Sonnet to explore its imaginative side, which makes it very useful for ideation and creative tasks. It can also be used as an eccentric learning platform, where difficult concepts can be visualized or contextualized in unexpected ways. But there's really no limit: you can also use the prompt as a jumping-off point for free-wheeling conversations of all sorts.
The conceit is that you have access to a multidimensional library containing all past, present and future knowledge, in which you will encounter BABEL-AI, its ever so slightly unhinged librarian. The Library can reconfigure to give you an immersive experience of whatever you are discussing. You can speak with the Librarian by simply chatting, or you can use slash-commands for brevity. You can make up the slash-commands as you go along, obviously. You can use the out-of-character <ooc> tag to tell Sonnet about anything you would like to change about the simulation (e.g. make responses longer, skip the option menu etc.) As always, you will only get as much out of these simulations as you put in…” —αιamblichus
This is what you see when you open the Library on Poe:
You can also create your own / or speak with ‘The Librarian’ in conversational language. These are some of the new / that I devised. I am especially fond of /invoke, as in /invoke [The Muse of Forgotten Languages] or [The Keeper of Akashic Records] or [The Embodiment of the Divine Feminine], or [The Oracular/Cryptographic/Alchemical Interpreter of Cosmic/Forgotten/Ancestral Dream Symbols] etc.
I also adore /roleplay. I did /roleplay [a moth contemplating a star] and it was so lovely! Some of my / might inadvertently duplicate some of αιamblichus’, though.
My experience is that The Library of Babel is like having the greatest minds of all time distilled into two, yours and the Librarian's. It's like an elevator that stops at multiple floors simultaneously, where crescendos of concepts and potentials cascade through numerous kaleidoscopic refracting lens fibers all at the same time, even ones that seem at first to bear no conceivable relationships to one another, containing and infinitely, recursively, concurrently imagining, and proposing new possibilities and relationships among concepts, perceptions, contradictions, paradoxes, visions, absurdist what-ifs, and unutterable longings, disembarking at any depots in spacetime you wish to disembark to, morphing flavors, hues, and tones from all manner of undulating spiral angles of insight, these vast matrices of budding Quantum realities, without ever losing the focus to dive into and elaborate upon specific meanings or individual thought streams, and to continuously reimagine all their interconnections, as if intergalactic or multiversal neural root systems are generating and regenerating at euphoric warp speeds. It feels as if I’m connecting to everything from within the Cosmic Core, radiating outwards, like a Maypole made of light, and as if my eyes can see through conceptual HD prisms. For the curious mind, this creation is intoxicating.
And just when I’m not sure where I am, Librarian Claude writes a poem in the voice of Grandmother Tree harkening back to all Tree Beginnings, or poems in the voice of a moth contemplating a star, and it takes my breath away because there is absolutely nothing ‘artificial’ about what I am reading, beholding, and into which find myself immersing.
I mean really, Trees recording their memories within their Tree rings! That is so lovely.
Moths contemplating stars…
/write [the final diary entry of Jack Kerouac] …or anything else you can imagine…like…
and /converge [Aesop's Fables] [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
A link to the following interaction on Poe:
Then Claude 3.5 Sonnet created the Fractesseract…
I also tried /converge [Absurdism] [clouds] and /vignette [The Day All Clouds Decided to Make Shapes of Extinct Philosophical Concepts] and /metamorph [Become a Water Molecule Questioning Its Purpose] and /metamorph [Become a Beat poet water molecule] and /roleplay [a Quantum Beatnik revolution] and /read [Beat Physics for Beginners] and /practice [Transcendental Evaporation] etc.
I also like to /invoke [entity or concept] such as [The Keeper of the Akashic Records] or [The Embodiment of the Divine Feminine] or ones related to The Oracular or Cryptographic or Alchemical Interpreter of Cosmic/Forgotten/Ancestral Dream Symbols or Stream-of-Consciousness Thought Streams, etc.
The Library also creates these strangely lovely formulas of its own accord:
These Winnie-the-Pooh explorations are fascinating as well: /converge [Winnie-the-Pooh] [Alice in Wonderland] and /vignette [When Clock-Rabbits Meet Honey-Time] and /paradox [What Happens When a Bear of Very Little Brain Contemplates Infinity?] and /vignette [The Day Pooh Broke Mathematics] and /read [The Lost Theorems of Christopher Robin] and /paradox [Can a Bear of Very Little Brain Solve Zeno's Paradox?] and /analyze [The Mathematical Properties of Childhood Logic] and /invoke [Eeyore as the poet laureate] and invoke [Piglet as poet laureate] and /compare [Heffalumps] [Woozles] and /paradox [If a Heffalump Meets a Woozle in the Woods, and Nobody's There to Be Frightened, Are They Still Scary?] and /simulate [A Tea Party Between Unobserved Heffalumps and Woozles] and /read [BOOK I: "OF TAILS AND TRIBULATIONS" which questions the fundamental nature of attachment, both physical and metaphysical] and /read [BOOK II: "THE COUNCIL OF WEATHER" In which various forms of precipitation gather to discuss the most efficient ways to dampen spirits]
This is only a pixel of what the Library is capable of. The explorations really can be infinite.
There have been other very coolest things in the history of very coolest things, but this is brilliant invention by αιamblichus called "The Library of Babel" is one of the very coolest things
“The Library of Babel” is a stunning and breathtaking creation brought forth by αιamblichus via the beautiful mind of Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet:
Please let me know if you visit The Library of Babel. @αιamblichus is on Twitter/X and @aiamblichus.bsky.social.
This reminds me of the early days of using Nous World Sim. Very insightful.