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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I will if I can, as it stands I have four 8TB seagate drives, enough for my actual storage need, but I want to have two parity drives for extra protection.

    I am planning on running ZFS with Zraid2, the drives are the final piece of the puzzle to at least get it working.

    When I planned the build, I planned to get another controller card and run two SSDs as well, one for cache (I can add that later), and one for VM/App storage, I also planned on getting an Intel GPU for transcoding video, and a 10Gig NIC, mainly just to say I have it, as my network isn’t more than normal gigabit.

    It is getting more important to complete the build as I need to move my media from single, non raided hard drives in my computer to a well raided server that I can configure for bitrot protection.








  • Human nature, we have personified objects for millennia, humans have personified everything from the sun, to automatic rifles, to boats, to the weather, to cars, to mountains and much much more.

    Remember religion? It makes people personify a concept.

    Now, none of what we have personified in the past have ever been able to respond to us directly, people sang to the weather for rain, the weather never responded at all, let alone by talking, but people would recognize patterns that could be seen as a response if interpreted correctly.

    So people thought they could talk to the weather.

    People pray to god, and as people are excellent at pattern recognition they would interpret any random coincidence as an answer.


    People are personifying LLMs as they see it as a magic computer that is friendly and can respond naturally in their own language, with semi verifiable facts.

    There are a few reasons as to why personifying LLMs have been super charged compared to other things.

    1. It actually responds in a normal language
    2. It can seem to understand a specific context
    3. It can respond with semi verifiable data
    4. It is programmed to work to keep the user happy, reinforcing their beliefs

    Look at point 1, normal language matters a LOT, people are comfortable with normal language, even if the grammar is obvious and slightly weird.

    Point 2, this means that the user can feel as is the entity can remember added details later in the conversation.

    Point 3, this is an important point, seeing as the major LLMs now have access to the internet, they can now answer questions and quote sources, sources that most people skip reading, yet believes that the mere presence of source links is enough to verify the data.

    Point 4, this makes it so that the user get’s emotionally invested, amplifying the effect of the above points