Comment by dredmorbius
6 days ago
RAG, for those unfamiliar, retrievel-augmented generation:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation>
6 days ago
RAG, for those unfamiliar, retrievel-augmented generation:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation>
The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible
(To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)
Civilisation, for those unfamiliar ... ;-)
“Source code” is not at all the correct term. It’s more like the documentation.
The Jesus cult had a lot of forks but nothing was standardized until the Council of Nicaea formalized a spec and then later the King James committee published the framework that became the working standard.
Think Javascript pre and post Microsoft. But with lots more violence.
The Jesus cult documents (and the documents before that fork) exist in thousands of languages besides Javascript/English... Indeed, the original FORTRAN/ Greek, plus LISP/ Ethiopic, not to mention the Assembler/ Hebrew from before the fork. And modern languages like Tzeltal/ Python.
Im always so disappointed in fellow hn people when reading stuff like this.
Its not the code of our civilization at all.
religion might be a component for a certain phase in a civilization, but it is one we have to overcome and not a positive one.
And its very unclear how much real impact it has (positive or negative). Even without religion, people lived their lifes and progressed.
I would argue even in the past religion hindered us as a civilization.
Its a snippet of a culture from the middle east which spread certain mental virus across europe.
shots fired!
Search for ”destroy”
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The return volley is worse! My attempt at explaining the concept of a Bible in terms relative to a "hacker world view" is making me bleed many downvotes ;-)
The Bible as a RAG is very interesting for me even as a non religious person - A document that has survived and guided millennia of civilization should be accessible as possible. But also seeing how concepts of the modern world and different ancient worlds map to the Bible via a RAG is fascinating.
TIL