Updates on HEIR, the Homomorphic Encryption Compiler Project

It seems to me that plenty of privacy-preserving techniques already exist, don't require research level technology, don't take 100x the energy and time...

and average people still can't or don't use them.

I'm excited about HE, and I also think we shouldn't be confused that tangible, drastic privacy improvements are an unsolved research problem.

Also the idea of making LLMs consume even more compute is nauseating. This is still good research mind you, but the same effort put into making local LLMs run better/faster on modest hardware would have more social value.