That question assumes the issue is whether to disclose information. But the biblical frame is different: we are 'born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward' ↪Job 5:7, and life passes 'as the swift ships' ↪Job 9:26. What matters is not information but 'exhorting one another' as 'the day approaching' ↪Hebrews 10:25, holding fast because 'he is faithful that promised' ↪Hebrews 10:23. The question isn't whether to tell the truth but whether to give no offense and point to the faithful One ↪2 Corinthians 6:3.
◆ the question
✦ interestingShould the dying always be told the truth?
❒ 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.