Alternative Lords Prayer

An alternative version of the Lord’s Prayer that feels more true to me.

Antecedence Matters

Antecedence matters. In the Bible, John 10:22-42 describes Jesus being stoned for blasphemy. Modern translations have Jesus calling himself "the son of God". But it can equally be "a" "son of God". When he is being stoned for blasphemy for calling himself "son of God", modern translations say: 34 Jesus replied, “It is written in … Continue reading Antecedence Matters →

Building a Bible & Quran QA System with Langchain and Flask

If I had lived in the C14, I would have liked to be a monk. This post channels my inner monk to explain how you can build a proof-of-concept exegesis system on the Bible and Quran with langchain.

Reflections on “Meaning”

Existential “meaning” is partly the telling of a story featuring ourselves that is available and consistent with our higher-level representations of the world. It is not, generally, rational; it is more a narrative correlated with a feeling of “selfness” and “correctness”.

Artificial Morality (or How Do We Teach Robots to Love)

One Saturday morning I came upon the website 80000 Hours. The idea of the site is to direct our activity to maximise impact. They have a list of world problems here. One of the most pressing is explained as the artificial intelligence "control problem" : how do we control forces that can out think us? This … Continue reading Artificial Morality (or How Do We Teach Robots to Love) →