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We've reached the point where LLMs contribute just as valuable a response as the lowest common denominator human internet commenter. This makes some people spooked so they neurotically second guess every comment that sounds slightly off. Its hard to tell organic farm fresh human trash vs GMO LLM trash unless youve spoken with enough language models to know the subtle quirks. Also this is lemmy so yeah LLM bad

Look Into specs for helium miners for hardware and you'll have a rough idea. The real question is software stack. How such a device would be interacted with from a user interface level, how would its version of webpages would work? I imagine its webpages would have to be text based with the option to download images or audio files as seperate files like the gemini protocol displayed as gemtext. Would consumers be willing to go back to early days web 1.0 style content like blogs and internet journals? You couldn't use such a network connection for work or banking so thats another limitation.

Look into ham radio internet and mesh networks in general its not fiction its just never seen enough mass adoption in a easy to set up onsumer bought package thats successfully advertised and well distributed.

Basically the problem is that you want to connect to the world-wide-internet, but you to so you need an ISP or satellite data provider to act as a middle man so they have all the control over who gets to access the internet (by paying them a service fee). What it sounds like you want is a mesh network where each user communicates with other users directly. Instead of your computer connecting to an ISP through your router, you connect to other computers in a local area network typically through wifi or radio signals. Its a decentralized network that everyone owns a small piece of which they send and recieve data from eachother.

This technology has been around a very long time. Would you like to guess why its not popular or well known? Well, its slow and only useful in rural areas where you aren't getting ISP service anyway. An intranet composed of 20 people connected in a few mile radius sharing usenet level information at download/upload speeds in the low kilobytes per second isn't exactly what people think about or want when they think of the 'internet'.

Perhaps a time will come where a consumer bought mesh based network router comes onto the market with enough advertising and appeal to be bought into by the masses with state/nation wide coverage built around a smallnet protocol like Gemini. Something like this almost happened with the Helium Network unfortunately it was designed to send smart IOT information in small packets and was only mass adopted because it was tied to mining crypto shitcoin through proof-of-connectivity. If someone can create something similar but without the shitcoin, with a mesh router box that host your website and is sold on the idea of a decentralized internet with a one-time purchase to cut out ISP it might just work.

I am a developer for a free open source game inspired by Minecraft called VoxeLibre, I have also made one of the more popular mods for it.

Development is a collaborative effort between many people so I cant call the game mine. I didn't create it. But ive been contributing on and off for a few years trying to do what I can to improve the project. So in a way it feels like I'm at least part of the legacy at this point. I am proud of how far the project as a whole have come and proud of the talented people I have the pleasure to collaborate with.

It started almost three years ago with simple typo bugfixes. I did not know anything about coding or pixel art making or git commits but liked it enough to learn through hard work and effort. Its been quite the ride ever since!

You'll want to look up how to offload GPU layers in ollama . a lower quant gguf should work great with offloading.

Most people use kobold.cpp now. ollama and llama.cpp kind of fell behind. kobold.cpp is a bleeding edge fork of llama.cpp with all the latest and greatest features. its GPU offloading is so damn easy if you have nvidia card use cblast if you have AMD card use vulcan.

Is there a particular reason youre trying to run a mixture of experts model for an RP/storytelling purposed llm? Usually MoE is better suited at logical reasoning and critical analysis of a complex problem. If you're a newbie just starting out you may be better with a RP finetune training of a mistralAI LLM like alriamax based of NeMo 12B.

Theres always a tradeoff with finetunes, typically a model thats finetuned for rp/storytelling sacrifices capabilities in other important areas like reasoning, encylcopedic knowledge, and mathematical/coding ability.

Heres an example starting command for offloading, I have a nvidia 1070ti 8gb and can get 25-35 layers offloaded onto it depending on context size

./koboldcpp --model Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407-Q4_K_M.gguf --threads 6 --usecublas --gpulayers 28 --contextsize 8092

I like to imagine there are infinite universes with slightly different starting conditions/cosmic constant values. Lots of them are non-starters for living observers because their fundimental forces didnt match up right to condense matter into stars after the big bang. Some universes like ours turn out to be goldilocks that balance the forces just right to for matter to assemble into structure and complexity.

Then for each particular universe theres an almost infinite amount of possible spacetime trajectories for matter to structure itself into from beginning big bang to ending heat death. Each unique possible state the universe could choose to become through probability as it progresses in time becomes its own branching divergent timeline, so like many worlds interpretation.

So no I don't think they are the same thing. There are infinite universes with different seed values, and each one of them contains their own set of infinite possible timelines acting out all possible states that universe could experience given its constraints.

Now what about two separate universes with almost identical starting conditions that happen to share an almost identical timeline that leads to your birth? Are your near-copies the same you experiencing different universes, or just seperate clones?

thanks for sharing it was a great watch! Here's one of my favorite gen alpha branrot speech parody videos

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-n5qVwn-Xc&pp=ygUOY29sdW1ibyBnaWFubmk%3D

You might like qutebrowser then!

I was born in a very poor section 8 district right outside of Philadelphia city. My parents were neglectful and abusive, so I went outside and roamed the town alone as a small child. I was beaten senseless multiple times by fellow kids. I asked them why and their reply was always because of the color of my skin and that their parents told them to hate my kind. Eventually I stopped trying to go outside or make friends because I was socially ostracized everywhere I went.

Nobody wants to hear about my traumatic experiences with racism or xenophobia that lead to long term damage to my social skills, or upbringing in a broken home never experiencing an ounce of love, or living with extreme poverty having to work for every scrap. Im white so it doesn't fit their narrative. My experiences are automatically invalid because of the color of my skin. Its socially acceptable to hate on white people because we 'deserve it'. All of us must be so privileged, come from middle or upper classes, never experiencing an ounce of suffering for the color of our skin or if we do its fair and deserved.

Many people don't want equality or peace for all, what many really want is vengeance and retribution for themselves even if it perpetuates the cycle of hatred. They want to be the new protected class.

"We did your mom, in every timeline and parallel universe where you were born too just to flex."

When writing the "turning the star into a fucking bomb" bit I was actually thinking about the black hole bomb same process as you describe but instead of extracting the energy or momentum it gets fed back into the system forming a runaway feedback loop leading to super nova level explosion. I doubted that a fellow science nerd on lemmy would see this comment and notice the slight error, but I could also see a real scenario where you completely cover a star with mirrors to the point its own energy is radiated back into itself forming a similar feedback loop causing it to explode.

A type three civilization capable of generating wormholes and changing universal constants within a bubble of localized space light-years in diameter when a type 1er ask them how they do anything:

"Graviton stabilizers, tethers, oh and

Any other questions?"