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points by cellsstudio 2 days ago | 0 comments

I'm not a doomsday prepper but man if you need to run an LLM locally during the apocalypse to figure out how long your food is going to last, I feel like you are in for a tough time.

This kind of stuff really feels like knowledge that probably shouldn't be offload to AI but rather learned and practiced. Again, I don't have a bunker in my backyard but seems like a weird use case.

[–] dns_snek 1 day ago

I also don't think the showcased response to the food question is any good?

Throwing out food that was at 6 °C for 2 hours without tasting it is really paranoid, the answer should be "it depends". If not following government advice/requirements on safe storage conditions (which is tailored to high risk populations) meant certain illness then I would be seriously ill at least once a week, but I've never been.

I would be waaaay more worried about catching a norovirus from someone who didn't wash their hands than raw meat being kept at 4-8C for 12h.

[–] drcode 1 day ago

I actually thought of writing a whole blog post just on this- That is such terrible survival advice, OF COURSE in an emergency you can eat stuff from the refrigerator even after 2 hours.

It is also really dumb to do that if there isn't an emergency

[–] kilroy123 1 day ago

I feel like there is a big misunderstanding here. In my house, we've been doing a lot of light "prepping" lately. Not for the apocalypse, but for simple emergency situations for a few days to a week.

The UK government has been pushing hard for the public to stock enough food and water for at least 3 days. We have weeks of supplies.

My huge worry is that the country will run out of LNG due to the ongoing war in Iran, Qatar being offline, and Europe not having enough LNG in storage. Plus, a lot of weird weather due to El Niño.

Is an emergency LLM really going to make a difference? Probably not, but I have one on my desktop computer anyways.

[–] RetroTechie 1 day ago

You'd be surprised how many people don't even have drinking water stored to get through a few days. That's 2nd most essential after air to breathe.

Same with food. NONE of this type of preparation is difficult, very space / time consuming, or expensive.

As for the LNG situation: worst case is do without heating. Totally doable in UK climate; extra layers of clothing & blankets / sleeping bags do the job (been there, done that in the NL).

Remember we're talking getting through a crisis, not comfort. Although you can have both with more prep work.

[–] alex_duf 2 days ago

Yeah that was my first reaction. In survival mode you want low tech not high tech.

Books are pretty damn good and don't need 500W of GPU

[–] telesilla 1 day ago

I've never maintained an internal combustion engine but always figured in an apocalypse I'd figure it out with books if needed. I agree that many folk would suffer hard, not knowing how to recognize viable food or even cook it.

[–] btbuildem 1 day ago

No, those people are going to die.

This is more of a "preserve the knowledge of mankind for the survivors" type of archive.

[–] asdff 1 day ago

I mean its obviously just a fun gag tool the OP made to throw the tool stack on their resume. This post can land them a six figure job.

[–] ActorNightly 1 day ago

Unless you have a general interest in self sufficiency, spending time practicing this is going to be a waste of time given its risk of actually happening. Thats where the llm come in. The most likely scenario isn't some crazy invasion like in CoD games, but more likely temporary dissarray, and even that is fairly unlikely considering how many things are automated now.