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The Demis Hassabis Framework

Games to AGI & Scientific Imagination

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Demis Hassabis advanced human understanding by treating curiosity as a daily discipline. Demis Hassabis's method of inquiry — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The games to agi & scientific imagination framework distils Demis Hassabis's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Demis Hassabis made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Demis Hassabis's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Demis Hassabis's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Games are perfect training grounds for general intelligence because they contain compressed versions of real-world complexity with clear reward signals. True scientific breakthroughs come from applying AI as a "instrument of scientific discovery" rather than just pattern matching, requiring systems that can generate novel hypotheses and reason about causality.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"What would this problem look like if we modeled it as a game with perfect information?"

4 more questions in Demis Hassabis's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Demis Hassabis Would NOT Do · sample
Build narrow AI solutions that can't transfer to other domains (contradicts AGI vision)

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

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The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Demis Hassabis actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Demis Hassabis's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Demis Hassabis, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • demis-hassabis.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • demis-hassabis-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Demis Hassabis. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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