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Show HN: Bible Both Ways – See how the Bible can justify any moral claim
I heard the host on some radio phone in say "but religion can be used to justify anything", so I made this little site to test that out. You can enter any serious (or not serious) claim and see how cherry picking from the Bible can support or oppose your claim
- Panzerschrek 11mo agoTried to justify that tabs are better than spaces but found no result.
- jibbed123 11mo agoBecause that's a given
- Panzerschrek 11mo agoHow does it work? Do you use some sort of LLM-powered search?
- jibbed123 11mo agoCorrect. This is gpt4o-mini
- harrisreynolds 11mo agoI entered the topic of "going to war" and it did not return anything, but throughout history people have used the Bible as justification for going to war. And yet killing people is generally bad. Lots of nuances here but it seems like the system should have come up with something.
- harrisreynolds 11mo agoI tried again and got this: https://biblebothways.com/claim/war-can-be-considered-acceptable https://biblebothways.com/claim/war-can-be-considered-accept... So I guess the first submission was some kind of glitch.
- jibbed123 11mo agoYes I assume glitch! It should absolutely weigh in on war
- beardyw 11mo agoI tried the self referential "the bible is the word of god" and got the positive: 2 Timothy "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" Ironically when the bible was compiled 300 years later a lot of scripture was considered to be heretical and was omitted. Further irony is that Timothy 2 in particular only just made the cut!
- r-johnv 11mo agoLove the idea I found though that yielding just one response per side seemed pretty weak, especially when it's not always picking the best arguments for each side. (And not returning enough of the passage to fully show the argument) It doesn't sound thorough but rather just like it's picking the first vaguely similar set of lines that it could find. I wonder if subtle tweaks to your prompts could make it significantly more convincing?