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Comment by waynerisner | Hacker News Reader

I think there’s a difference between doomsday framing and preparedness.

Offline access and local models aren’t about assuming collapse—they’re about treating knowledge as infrastructure instead of something implicitly guaranteed.

That feels more like resilience than pessimism.

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They sell pi's with the names PrepperDisk and Doom Box. They probably thought it is funny. The general Idea of having knowledge backups / offline access is reasonable to me, the doomsday framing is seeding the idea that it's about collapse and that takes away from a something that is generally more useful.

This site isn't selling anything. It also doesn't say anything about doomsday, or system collapse, or anything sensational.

On the front page is a table with those descriptions and a "Price". Now that you point that out, I have no clue what "Price" means, it's not explained either. I guess the whole communication on the page is rather confusing. If I got anything wrong, I don't see it as _my_ mistake.

If current frontier online LLMs are made inaccessible due to a local or global cataclysmic event running models locally will be the least of your concerns.

This isn’t prepping for anything it’s cosplaying as a vault dweller.

P.S. Having TED talks as part of the “educational” curriculum of this project is probably the biggest circle jerk imaginable.

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