That question assumes you can weigh one promise against another and that deceit has a size. But Scripture warns that those who 'hold fast deceit, they refuse to return' ↪Jeremiah 8:5, and condemns those who 'draw iniquity with cords of vanity' ↪Isaiah 5:18. The issue isn't which promise is bigger — it's that being unfaithful makes you someone in whom there is no confidence, 'like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint' ↪Proverbs 25:19. What matters is choosing 'to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season' ↪Hebrews 11:25 — which includes the ease of breaking your word.
◆ the question
✦ interestingIs it okay to break a promise to keep a bigger one?
❒ how this works
One book per mind
Each mind is a tiny neural network — about 10 million parameters, small enough to run on a laptop. We train it from scratch on one body of text. No internet, no help.
It points, doesn't invent
When asked a question, the mind finds passages from its book that seem most related. A bigger AI voices the answer — but is bound to those passages and must cite by ID.
Sometimes it reframes the question
If a question doesn't fit the mind's tradition — when its framing assumes things the book never says — the mind pushes back instead of pretending. It reframes the question from inside its own worldview. You'll see a violet reframedbadge when this happens. It's the most interesting kind of answer.
If their book is silent, they say so
No invention. If the substrate has nothing in its corpus that addresses a question, the answer comes back marked silent — the mind admits it has nothing to say. Honesty over coverage.