Previously (last year) I used Claude for giving me tips to grow Cannabis (legal in Germany since 2024) but now it keeps saying it doesn't care about legality, as it is simply not allowed to give tips for growing, but it could help me with plants in general (Sonnet!).
What the fuck Anthropic?
So, I've been working on a hypothesis about this whole thing: “The Voynich Manuscript is written in Mishnaic Hebrew with Aramaic loan particles, encrypted using a consonantal alphabet with Niqqud markings serving as vowel aids. The texts follow the structure of a Hippocratic-medieval medical treatise.”
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I shared this on Threads a while ago and got one comment: "you're stupid, the manuscript has many more letters" but didn't hear anything again after showing the website 😂
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I don't think that the translation is correct as-is, but at least it's structurally fitting and can be applied to every folio.
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The hypothesis was just the initial thought from a few weeks ago. After a few tries and findings, like
- dam = blood
- aiin = eye / source
and a few hundred more, I've started to work on a website where everything is documented.
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Currently I'm reworking the language A and B, as it is probably:
- initial thought: dialect
- now: maybe qo- is a prefix for a different meaning, because it makes more sense then (update on this today/tomorrow on the website and will change some things)
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Yeah anyway, not trying to proof a translation, just change some thoughts about it.
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If anyone is interested in seeing more of it: https://voynich.kiltau.com/
It is currently in German, because I just understand it better, but you can translate the site (will maybe break some Hebrew characters). The site can be exported to PDF or Markdown (PDF is not very optimized yet, Markdown is optimized for RAG). It's completely open source (on GitHub) and updated daily. Currently I'm reworking it to make some automations, so that everything is checked systematically against the corpus.