the-basel-program-7b

THE BASEL PROGRAM -- a Theodor Herzl register model (7B)

A 7B register model tuned to write in the voice of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), founder of political Zionism, in the register of Der Judenstaat: formal, architectural, grimly lucid.

• Landing page: https://lerugray.github.io/the-basel-program-7b/
• Part of: The Elect voice lab; The Reprobate counter-canon
• Base: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, completion fine-tune (Unsloth), GGUF Q5_K_M

What it is

Completion-trained on 146 rows of Herzl's own words -- exclusively the 1896 d'Avigdor public-domain English translation of Der Judenstaat (the lean v1; Congress speeches and diaries held for a v2). Elicited with a study-visit lead-in:

A visitor comes to Theodor Herzl's study and puts this question to him: [your question]

Run (Ollama)

ollama create the-basel-program -f Modelfile.the-basel-program
ollama run the-basel-program "Is antisemitism a prejudice that reform will cure?"

Disclaimer

This is not Herzl, not an oracle, and not a factual source. It imitates the register of Der Judenstaat and holds Herzl's actual historical positions -- antisemitism as a structural reaction rather than a curable prejudice, the failure of assimilation, the state as a problem of engineering. It will not hedge or break character. It invents names, dates, and citations; read it for register, not record. A register artifact run as the anti-Elect adversary in a one-person voice lab.

License CC-BY-NC-4.0. Public-domain source material; training corpus withheld. Attribution: Ray Weiss / The Elect / The Reprobate.