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UPDATE: Y'all, I haven't even hooked up any models to it. It's only 5 megabytes.

It just opened. Instantly. Every button and thing happens instantly. what are we doing everywhere else. I'd forgotten that things can be this fast.

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FIVE megabytes. Wow. What are we doing everywhere else.

Yup. Looks like I'll have to build from source. Which used to be perhaps a deal killer, but now I'll just get gemini to walk me through it. :)

I had just about the opposite reaction. As in "hey are we in 2000? nice!" Like back when you couldn't much afford to have stupid bloat and there was much better attention paid to "just do the thing and nothing else?"

Can't wait to try it.

"Vitalik as basically an influencer" is kind of a wild take, like maybe saying Linus Torvalds is an influencer.

Love or hate it, he invented the 2nd -- maybe even the 1st -- most impactful form of cryptocurrency.

Exactly. Interaction with healthy humans is, of course, better than interacting with AI.

But I'd also guess that interacting with AI is better than unhealthy humans, esp those put in front of you by social media.

No one knows for sure, but my guess is no? The difficulty with this conversation of course, lies in the details - specifically in terms of "to what extent can the user, or other presumably positive forces, modify what the person puts in their own brains."

This is why I'm a huge proponent of something like "small AI."

Fwiw, having taught online for well over a decade, I keep (kept?) trying to put people on to the marvel of a virtual machine for this (minus the sharing this offers, I suppose)

Just have a VM that you tell Zoom or whatnot is the "window to present" Now you can do anything, slides and more, and also that thing can be the only publicly seen thing, your computer stays private.

We don't disagree; I'd call what you are doing refining the principles?

Fwiw, I'm liking the koboldcpp "ecosystem", including koboldlite; basically it's letting me try a little of everything, though there may be something of a "jack of all trades master of none" thing going on. But it has these nice little presets for, e.g. llms, voice, music, images, a "chatgpt"-esque interface, etc.

So there are a zillion of these, including ones that do what yours does. But that being said, I'm going to always upvote every single one of them because this is better and more important that what the big companies are doing across the board.

It's interesting how I can be of two minds here, nearly simultaneously. Absent the horrific circumstances, my nerd brain says -- well, this is why phones should perhaps just be dumb devices that completely sync elsewhere such that physical possession is mostly meaningless. This also solves, e.g., border phone searches.

And also, yikes, don't actually want these type of horrific people doing this? It's difficult all around.

Okay, so -- your flip answer is pretty much exactly how the law should not operate?

That's the point of law. To come up with principles that you can follow consistently, regardless of your feelings in the situation.

20 years ago called and wants its take back.

Open source developers work on Linux. What you're saying presently makes no sense at all.