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I know HN, we're supposed to make thoughtful comments etc, but... holy shit. :) Fits on a USB, or even a DVD.

That's very thoughtful. Maybe I'll get downvoted but I'll say this: One could just store this on the long-storage tech or in a temp-controlled seed farm in someplace cold with a computer, and english instructions on how to use this. Maybe one day a human (or even another being for that matter!) in the late late future will discover this and wonder what the hell this was about and how it really worked.

Or maybe it'll provide them insight into how their own modern technology works that they didn't understand any more. ;)

It’s a trope in sci-fi - the protagonist encounters a mysterious technological object from an ancient civilization, a trove containing ‘all the knowledge of an extinct race’.

Usually it gets downloaded into someone’s mind, triggering some kind of cascade of baffling imagery.

Feels kind of odd that this model data actually… works sort of like that?

ha! Hadn't thought about it that way.

But only so much can be encoded through history. I'd love to see a sci-fi movie combined with the butterfly effect. A somewhat advanced civilization in the past and another (maybe present) civilization where people try to find out stuff about the other one, maybe they're successful at the beginning at depicting how they were but they start to think they know everything and the whole perspective of the civilization changes.

If this thing isn't a "Magic Item" then I don't know what is

And the size will be less and less until a certain information compression limit: Emad tweeted that their optimized model is already just 2.1 Gb and he hopes to make it less, around 100 Mb:

https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1564655464406650881

With all the model optimization, distillation papers already out, a few hundred Mb doesn't look impossible with similar quality outputs.

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