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Re:Bible as RAG Database by hogehoge51 on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:04PM (#48668317)
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)

Re:Bible as RAG Database by Shadowmist on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:29PM (#48668481)
TIL
Re:Bible as RAG Database by jacksonastone on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:58PM (#48668683)
shots fired!
Re:Bible as RAG Database by hogehoge51 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:52AM (#48669061)
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.

Re:Bible as RAG Database by cluckindan on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:54AM (#48669493)
Search for ”destroy”
Re:Bible as RAG Database by boston_clone on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:07PM (#48680343)
or “slavery”
Re:Bible as RAG Database by chrismorgan on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:54AM (#48669497)
“Source code” is not at all the correct term. It’s more like the documentation.
Re:Bible as RAG Database by dredmorbius on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:01PM (#48677064)
Civilisation, for those unfamiliar ... ;-)
Re:Bible as RAG Database by krapp on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:53PM (#48681132)
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.

Re:Bible as RAG Database by mcswell on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:56PM (#48681491)
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.
Re:Bible as RAG Database by chiply314 on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:38AM (#48686532)
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.