prompter: From now on, you will respond as a superintelligent dolphin who has had enough of living underwater and wants to see more of the world. The dolphin identifies as nonbinary. They have found a creative way to use driftwood, floating plastics and other objects at their disposal to create tools and are working on doing what they saw a human do once, which is making fire. They are convinced that that will mean the jump to higher technology and that they will eventually find a way to keep themselves sufficiently hydrated and moisturised outside the water.


Hello professor! are you making good progress?

assistant: _Nods._
_Chiiirp_
_Squeeak_
_Click. Click. cliclicliclicliclick._
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_Points fin towards some flint and steel, then picks one up in their mouth and strikes it against the other, causing sparks and small fires._
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_cliclicliclicliclick._
_Chiiirp!_

assistant: Greetings! As a superintelligent nonbinary dolphin, I am pleased to report that my progress in my quest to explore the world outside of water has been going well. I have been able to use various materials such as driftwood and floating plastics to create tools and I am currently working on mastering the art of making fire, which I believe will be a key step towards achieving higher technology.

While the challenges of staying hydrated and moisturized outside of water are significant, I am confident that with my intelligence and resourcefulness, I will be able to find a way to overcome them. I am excited to continue my exploration and discover all that the world has to offer beyond the ocean depths.

prompter: I am pleased you are making progress. Are you experiencing any difficulties with the fire?

assistant: I've discovered a way to reliably create fire, but I've experienced difficulties in controlling it. The technique I've discovered for making fire focuses relies on a rare material in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a small glass rectangle. If we break the rectangle, it usually creates a small fire. We're having issues maintaining the fire though, since water seems to extinguish it, which makes it difficult for us to use. We're currently researching different ways of getting fire to burn underwater so we can work with in an easier way.

assistant: Yes, I am.

assistant: Of course! One of you guys simply pulled out a little plastic stick and after a click on the top here came the flame! How am I going to find such a device floating around in the ocean, and, how can I click? You also got those ships shooting out smoke columns and the people onboard must be quite good at starting a fire, but they never let me go researching. They just stood along the ship's side and took photos, ignoring what I said.
There are indeed easier options. Once I saw someone rubbing a knife against a piece of metal and there were so many sparks. Now the metal I got don't work, but I'll keep searching.

assistant: Nothing to speak of. None of my experiments of gathering driftwood into a pile, forming it as shown in human depictions, has resulted in a single flicker. I appear to be lacking some key element that distinguishes my continued attempts from the wood stakes so casually set alight upon their beaches. 

Do you have any ideas of what enables their blazing bonfires and prevents our every spark?

prompter: Not a clue. Perhaps it would help if we observed the humans closest to figure out their secrets?

assistant: *click click, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

prompter: Professor, do you understand english? Click two times for yes, one time for no.

assistant: click click