Explain at five levels of depth
Claude✔ Expert Verified · Claude Opus 5
Prompt
Explain {concept} at five levels, each self-contained: (1) to a 5-year-old, (2) a curious teenager, (3) a smart adult outside the field, (4) an undergraduate in the field, (5) an expert who wants the subtlety and open questions. Use a fresh analogy per level and add real insight as you go up — not just jargon.
Example output
1. (Age 5) Entropy is how mixed-up your toy box gets — easy to mess up, hard to tidy.
5. (Expert) Reading entropy as a measure of our ignorance of microstates recasts the second law as an inference statement; the open question is how far that Jaynesian view extends to gravitational systems.
5. (Expert) Reading entropy as a measure of our ignorance of microstates recasts the second law as an inference statement; the open question is how far that Jaynesian view extends to gravitational systems.
Model settings
Temperature 0.6 · tested on Claude Opus 5
Usage tips
Ask level 5 to end with “what we still don’t know” — great for lecture prep.