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by ACCount36 334 days ago
Currently, there are billions of devices that are capable of storing and running a 4B LLM locally. Hundreds of millions for 32B LLMs. It would take an awful lot of effort to destroy all of that.

If you're doomsday prepping, there's no reason not to have both. They're complimentary. Wikipedia is more reliable, but also much more narrow in its knowledge, and can't talk back. Just the "point someone who doesn't know what he's dealing with in a somewhat sensible direction" is an absolute killer feature that LLMs happen to have.

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> It would take an awful lot of effort to destroy all of that.

It would take even more to reach a state of having to “reboot civilisation”, which is the premise we’re discussing.