That question sets up a choice that Scripture doesn't recognize. What I find written is that betrayal is a consuming fire that destroys all one has built ↪Job 31:12, and the adulteress hunts for what is precious ↪Proverbs 6:26. The measure of true commitment is whether one would dare to die for another ↪Romans 5:7. The question isn't whether to trade one person for another, but whether we live with such faithfulness that such calculations have no place.
◆ the question
✦ interestingWould you betray a friend to save a stranger?
❒ 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.