Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by Anon84 » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/library/online-catalogue...

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library
openculture.com

Re: Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by jrussino » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

Re: Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by akomtu » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

jrussino wrote: post #2

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

Re: Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by TheOtherHobbes » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

akomtu wrote: post #3

jrussino wrote: post #2

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

Considering where we are, "AI trained on occult books successfully banishes demons" might be more useful.

Re: Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by pnemonic » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

akomtu wrote: post #3

jrussino wrote: post #2

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

"Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky reborn as LLMs after encoded consciousnesses parsed by training algorithms"

Re: Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by dismalaf » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

This is super cool. There's also a popular YouTube channel called "ESOTERICA" in which an academic expert on the occult presents a lot of occult topics from a scholarly point of view (as opposed to the woo often associated with the topic).

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Post by racl101 » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC

akomtu wrote: post #3

jrussino wrote: post #2

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

"AI trained on alchemy books successfully invokes demons"

So did it tell you how to make gold or not?

Re: Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library

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Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

dismalaf wrote: post #6

This is super cool. There's also a popular YouTube channel called "ESOTERICA" in which an academic expert on the occult presents a lot of occult topics from a scholarly point of view (as opposed to the woo often associated with the topic).

https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel

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Post by Jonovono » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:18 PM UTC

Somewhat related, but I randomly got suggested this video on Youtube when it only had a couple hundred views. He's turned it into a series, and I have quite enjoyed it. Somehow bridges user interfaces and occult stuff haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpBQgZ5IsI&list=PLsfH1Ahi4S...

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Post by dylan604 » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:20 PM UTC

jrussino wrote: post #2

This sounds like the premise for a fun sci-fi/horror move. Uh-oh; we accidentally trained GPT6 on the Necronomicon!

I hope it was trained on Army of Darkness and can never actually say the words.