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points by saaaaaam 2 days ago | 0 comments

When you’re living in an igloo trying to stay warm in the hollowed out belly of a cow having a few books around the place is probably more useful than some files on a laptop that ran out of battery just before it got morbidly damp. Plus you can burn them if you really need to.

[–] drusepth 2 days ago

On the other hand, the laptop struggling to power a good-enough LLM will probably be a great heat source for you in that igloo... for about 45 minutes.

[–] saaaaaam 2 days ago

As I said elsewhere, you can always burn the books! And eating a laptop is considerably crunchier and more fraught than chewing through some good old fashioned leather facings, horse glue and nice heavy 120gsm wove.

[–] recursive 2 days ago

On the other hand, if you know enough to build an igloo, you're probably going to be ok regardless.

[–] octoberfranklin 2 days ago

"cow in an igloo" sounds like something an LLM would hallucinate.

[–] saaaaaam 2 days ago

Yes I slightly mangled that one. But I’m sure there is a survival technique that involves crawling into the body cavity of a hollowed out cow. You probably wouldn’t want to do that in an igloo though. I’m not even sure you could get a cow into an igloo. If standard issue humans are this flawed it’s hardly surprising that top flight LLMs get things so wrong sometimes.

[–] natebc 1 day ago

I'd have gone with Bantha in an ice cave myself.