That’s a quote from an Anthropic internal planning document. Basically they’re buying used books on the cheap and anonymously, then scanning them, so they can legally have fair-use in their AI models.
“The crux of the matter is how to choose a good security plugin. We’ve compiled an essential list, getting rid of things that aren’t related to security.
Essential security features
Malware scanning
Malware cleaning
Firewall
Good-to-have security features
Vulnerability detection
Brute force login protection
Activity log
Two-factor authentication
Potential problems
Impact on server resources
As you can see, there are only 3 essential features you need to worry about. A security plugin should be great at these 3 things: malware scanning, malware cleaning, and firewall. Everything else is gravy. We aren’t putting down brute force protection or two-factor authentication, because those are important too. But you can get other plugins for that functionality.
MalCare is the only security plugin that has great malware scanning and cleaning capabilities, and an advanced firewall that keeps out threats. Every other plugin fails in one place or the other.”
Mind is “artificial intelligence”. Mind is the first “robot” that human beings ever made. In the usual discussions of such matters, artificial intelligence is presumed to be something generated by computers. In actuality, however, language is the first form of artificial intelligence created by human beings.
Adi Da then goes on to discuss the limitations of “mind”, and then defines real intelligence: “Real Intelligence is tacit (or intrinsically wordless) living existence.” –page 56
So then what? What happens if you’re really intelligent? the World-Friend, Adi Da continues: “If you are sensitive to the actual nature of your experience, you discover that conditionally manifested existence is disturbed and limited and unsatisfactory. Therefore, you actively look (even if only inwardly, in a feeling sense) for Something Greater.” Ibid.
Mickey Mouse & European Magician
This reminds me of a Disney story, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” from the movie Fantasia, in which Mickey Mouse, as that apprentice, decides to cast a spell so the broom works for him (his robot!) and then things get out of hand and that’s rather amusing. Disney got the story from the German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Mickey Mouse as Sorcerer
“The earliest known written version of the tale was penned by the Greco-Roman satirist Lucian of Samosata (c. 120–180 AD). In his work The Lover of Lies, a character named Eucrates recounts his time studying under an Egyptian magician.” —article “The Greek writer Lucian provided some of the details about the sorcerer being a priest of Isis and learning his art in the catacombs under the city of Memphis.”–article2
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak famously told graduates at Grand Valley State University that they already possess “AI,” which stands for “Actual Intelligence”. Instead of praising artificial intelligence, he emphasized that human creativity, critical thinking, and emotional understanding are far more valuable than any dry or perfect machine.
While other commencement speakers—such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt—were booed by students for praising artificial intelligence, Wozniak was met with roaring applause. He has previously noted that he finds current AI disappointing because it lacks genuine human understanding, preferring organic intelligence over the hype surrounding generative tech.
learning how to code with local AI (prompt coding)
use LM Studio (ai framework)
LM Studio sort of works, sort of doesn’t (3 different PCs to test different configurations)
local AI with a small card is slow and dumb
use claude code remote to help setup a local AI GPU
new ubuntu release using Apple unified memory
old cpu, LM Studio doesn’t like
use claude to get local AI working without LM Studio
use Ollama with AMD GPU (since it’s not nvidia, requires more work to setup, but it’s cheaper)
use docker to simplify connecting AI gpu to llama.cpp underneath
use webUi as interface for web access
use VS Code with extension to edit file in local PC directory
ask a simple ?: how long does it take for Saturn to revolve once around the sun? (It actually had enough information to calculate it based on Kepler’s planetary laws of motion–it doesn’t have access to the web yet) It took 30 seconds to tell me: 29.43 years, google takes 3 seconds to pull NASA data: 29.5 years
It takes a lot of work to get this setup working like I want to! Every line item has hours if not days of details to go with it. Right now the AI companies (like OpenAI and Anthropic) are subsidizing AI development, but at some point in the near future, heavy AI users are going to have to start paying for actual AI runtime usage, so I figure I better have something that I can use locally for easier work tasks so I won’t be paying $hundreds of dollars per month for software development.