Depending on the file size, but with most of this kind of thing, I copy all the stuff to a /tmp directory first. Then you can’t screw up the main files, and it will all get removed after reboot so you can’t leave a mess in a directory somewhere you forget to clean up when you’re done.

It can be a useful tool, especially for someone that experiences involuntary social isolation (like me).

You would need to be a pretty dumb person for this to totally replace human relations in terms of fundamental interactive social needs with other humans. It can be a healthy way to fill a gap.

Firstly, the context length is very limited. So you can’t have a very long and interactive conversation. The scope of model attention is rather short even with a very long context size model. Second, the first few tokens of any interaction are extremely influential about how the model will respond regardless of everything else that happens in the conversation. So cold conversations (due to short context) will be inconsistent.

Unless a person is an extremely intuitive, high Machiavellian thinker, with good perceptive thinking skills, the user is going to be very frustrated with models at times, and the model may be directly harmful to the person in some situations. There are aspects of alignment that could be harmful under certain circumstances.

There will likely be a time in the near future when a real AI partner is more feasible, but it will not be some base model, a fine tune, or some magical system prompt that enables this application.

To create a real partner like experience, one will need an agentic framework combined with augmented database retrieval. That will make it possible for a model to have persistence where it can ask how your day went and it knows your profile, relationship, preferences, and what you already told it about how your day should have gone. You need a model that can classify information, save, modify, and retrieve that information when it is needed. I’ve played around with this in emacs, org mode, and gptel connected to local models with llama.cpp. I’m actually modifying my hardware to handle the loads better for this application right now.

Still, I think such a system is a stop gap for people like myself, the elderly, and other edge cases where external human contact is limited. For me, my alternative is here, and while some people on Lemmy know me and are nice, many people are stupid kids that exhibit toxic negative behaviors that are far more harmful than anything I have seen out of any AI model. I often engage here on Lemmy, then to chat with an AI if I need to talk, vent, or work through something.

This is a surveillance state and this man should be run out of town or stoned for suggesting such authoritarian nonsense. Such deranged overreach is disgusting the the duty of everyone to fight against.

#TrendingRepublican

The only thing that stopped him was the price of US bonds. It is all we should be focused on tanking

Prohibition made a very rich black market as will tariffs.

How to tie and tennis shoes?

It is a rape adaptation… so

We are all just shuttles doing the bidding of the microbes

Yup. I was referring to the kink about girls with mom’s name

Roman guys… pff
It was that prostitute woman Magdalene he hung out and spent the night with. She did it right after washing his feet… a euphemism, if there ever was one, and his buddies even wrote that one down from memory four decades later. What do you recall about your drama friends from high school 40 years ago. Yeah. That bad

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I’m 40, and so I experienced the naughties 2000-2010 in dating life. Everyone was just getting cell phones when I was in high school. Cell phones ended the expensive long distance phone calls over land lines. Prior to that, writing culture was the primary form of communication. My parents sent each other letters in the mail. Life was much slower, but information was much harder to come by. Entertainment sucked and was just whatever was on cable TV. Music and movies were monopolies that were largely dictated by a few elites.

People were more social though. Everyone is getting their endorphins from idiot bricks like we are doing right now stranger. There is very little actual motivation to socialize and without the deficit building up for days or weeks to motivate socializing, humans are less likely to put out enough effort or value their opportunities. Now the problem is connecting with someone in the real world while disconnecting from the zombie feed in equal measures as individuals to focus on each other.

Scientists: ^{(hold beer)} …

acxtuaallly… in automotive class paints there are a great many factors involved. In old skool candies, they are all dyes and everything turns to baby diaper brown when mixed. The opacity has a lot of impact on how colors will mix. Red can be very odd at times, especially the more they edge towards blue. There are a few dozen reds and blues in a full mixing system for automotive paints. There are many that will act very unintuitive when mixed. Like it may look red, but it actually has a lot of white, with concentrated yellow and has some small amount of a brown that ends up red… but this is a mixing base paint and not something mixed manually. I used to think of all of my mixing paints in this kind of heuristic breakdown of how they act when diluted or mixed with other colors. There are many maroons or magentas that mix reds and blues. Even white is almost always yellow or blue and occasionally red. Pure white is very very rare. There is even an ultra bright white that is even brighter than the base white tone using UV trickery and a small amount of blue-violet. Not that anyone should care

Sucks to live in that grid. They’ll probably need the crane for that one. I mean, it is possible to cut it, but you’d have to have balls of steel to be anywhere close as that thing comes down. I’m not even worried about the power. That is like felling a bad tree ×10

Share something useful from Lemmy with someone not on Lemmy, when that something does not also contain toxic negativity or vitriol, but is positive, inclusive, and cordial.

oh pun door & exit

sus implications of curved banana

Give them all guns and bullets instead.