I contribute to the Embassy of the Free Mind, in Amsterdam. They have one of the world’s largest collections of Neo-Latin books/manuscripts from 1400-1600s. The

I contribute to the Embassy of the Free Mind, in Amsterdam. They have one of the world’s largest collections of Neo-Latin books/manuscripts from 1400-1600s. Their library has so many fascinating esoteric works—on alchemy, spiritual practices, Neoplatonic philosophy, natural magic, etc. But, 80% of the library hasn’t been digitized or translated. This digitization and translation is what I’m supporting — and making the works accessible to AI (and through AI). I somehow feel very motivated to make sure that the intellectual works that inspired the Renaissance, European Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution are accessible, both to people and for LLM pretraining.