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Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?

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223 points benkaiser | 8 comments | 29 Dec 24 03:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.862s | source | bottom
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szvsw ◴[29 Dec 24 05:41 UTC] No.42537852[source]▶
It seems like LLMs would be a fun way to study/manufacture syncretism, notions of the oracular, etc; turn up the temperature, and let godhead appear!

If there’s some platonic notion of divinity or immanence that all faith is just a downward projection from, it seems like its statistical representation in tokenized embedding vectors is about as close as you could get to understanding it holistically across theological boundaries.

All kidding aside, whether you are looking at Markov chain n-gram babble or high temperature LLM inference, the strange things that emerge are a wonderful form of glossolalia in my opinion that speak to some strange essence embedded in the collective space created by the sum of their corpi text. The Delphic oracle is real, and you can subscribe for a low fee of $20/month!

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1. Trasmatta ◴[29 Dec 24 05:46 UTC] No.42537882[source]▶
> the strange things that emerge are a wonderful form of glossolalia in my opinion that speak to some strange essence embedded in the collective space created by the sum of their corpi text. The Delphic oracle is real, and you can subscribe for a low fee of $20/month!

I've had some surprisingly insightful tarot readings with the assistance of ChatGPT and Claude. I use tarot for introspection rather than divination, and it turns out LLMs are extremely good at providing a sounding board to mirror and understand those insights.

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2. colecut ◴[29 Dec 24 06:09 UTC] No.42538000[source]▶
Yes they specialize in BS
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3. whatnotests2 ◴[29 Dec 24 06:10 UTC] No.42538006[source]▶
This is the correct use of tarot, IMO
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4. hackernewds ◴[29 Dec 24 07:45 UTC] No.42538380[source]▶
You could just as well ask "what should I do given the information I've provided you with"? start from a blank space and it's zero value
5. Pamar ◴[29 Dec 24 08:51 UTC] No.42538630[source]▶
See also: https://www.pa-mar.net/Lifestyle/I-Ching.html (disclaimer: I wrote this one).
6. whamlastxmas ◴[29 Dec 24 13:15 UTC] No.42539752[source]▶
It also works well to complain at. I dump my problems on ChatGPT before anyone else and it helps a lot
7. Trasmatta ◴[29 Dec 24 13:17 UTC] No.42539762[source]▶
Introspection isn't BS
8. MrDrMcCoy ◴[29 Dec 24 21:54 UTC] No.42543661[source]▶
The correct use of Tarot is as a trick-taking card game, and was used this way for centuries before a random French occultist wrote a book about using it for divination.