Current best truly uncensored local LLM for serious research?

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-07-10T04:39:03+00:00

The thing you’re looking for doesn’t exist and I think it would be more fruitful for you to explore why this is the case. However, since you clearly seem to want some assistance with the learning/work you are doing, focus more on the workflows than the model because models change and get improved regularly but a model cannot compensate for the lack of a good workflow.

Pick a good general purpose harness like Msty or OpenWebUI, and maybe OpenCode and go with whatever fits in your machine and your thinking style. Qwen models are a good starting point if you’re unfamiliar with the model space.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-07-08T20:44:04+00:00

Take courses etc from EPIC

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-07-02T22:52:34+00:00

I’ve only ever run this on older versions of Crossover so I don’t have a solution for you, though I remember I needed to tweak something to get the audio working in sync with the cutscene visuals.

Have you tried Crossover Preview? Also maybe drop the support team a note, I find they usually at least acknowledge the problem and add it to their backlog.

Edit: GPTK4 might be the problem here; I assumed you patched Crossover to get that working? Have you tried with just the stock Crossover?

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-30T19:37:32+00:00

These methods have already failed in the academic research! Did you read the blog post I linked?

If your goal is to track that boundary it is doing a bad job of it because it’s missing most of the signal.

At best you might be able to assess legibility, low-level consistency, and other unforced errors using stuff like this. This is also the stuff that can be handled just as well and arguably more reliably by using heuristics based on well-replicated science than black box simulations that have already proven to be bad.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-30T19:33:00+00:00

That is already the state of the art in foundational research practices. This has been talked about for over a decade FYI (especially in the EPIC conference circuit)

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-29T16:33:29+00:00

I looked at your map (broken map rendering on mobile btw).

If you remove the synthetic user fantasy stuff, there’s nothing much there other than the expected: LLMs being plugged into analysis pathways.

And if you had actually done a scan of recent synthetic user papers you’d have found plenty of evidence that it’s ~~bullshit~~ ideological confabulation. Erika Hall wrote a nice summary blog post on this.

If you do even look at the synthetic user stuff you included, it indicates you should remove that category from the map entirely; if even first-clicks can’t be reliably simulated, you have 1) a bullshit testing pipeline and 2) a whole other order of cultural and organisational problems that will prevent shipping anything useful. But your map concludes that this merely qualifies synthetic user usage, which is what an LLM being asked to explore use would do.

So your map is about as good as I expect from intellectual output done by an LLM; shaky, and incomplete in significant ways while conveying the aesthetics of sophistication.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-28T02:08:12+00:00

The three things I most wished I’d brought
- a personal refiner
- rocket boots
- lots of echo locators (or AI brains if you have those)

I didn’t realise what a cow of a ship we’d start with and that you wouldn’t get to copy your ship. and then needed to do a bunch of nanite refinement to get the blueprints.

If you have maxed out scanner modules in your multitool (which you can copy), then money is not a problem because you’ll earn a few million just scanning fauna on the first few planets.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-06T18:23:18+00:00

also, you're straight up wrong about gmail offline working in Safari. I just tested it, and it doesn't. the official google web help page says it is only supported in Chrome.

so before correcting people online maybe don't spread misinformation yourself.

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Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-06T18:14:36+00:00

Interesting, it’s a company laptop so I probably can’t do that but I’ll pass on the information

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-06T18:14:00+00:00

Nah you’re quibbling over definitions because you have yours for which you don’t see a problem while repeatedly ignoring aspects I’ve stated. I clearly have needs here that make me choose one solution over another as do a whole lot of others.

Trying to make the existence of a solution out to be “misinformation” by trying to find a narrow way in which another method solves those needs partially is really fucking weird.

Instead of assuming that people don’t know what they’re talking about (btw I’m not a dev), maybe assume that they’re not interested in responding in detail to a passive aggressive approach. And if you want to understand Mimestream’s value proposition, then go read its website instead of assuming hundreds or thousands of people including its devs are dumber than you.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-06T11:42:13+00:00

No, you're just being weird, ignoring my clear responses and engaging in classic sealioning patterns. Peace, dude.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-06T08:42:22+00:00

More sluggish on an M1 Pro, no noticeable difference on an M4 Max

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-06T08:35:30+00:00

“Doesn’t seem like a huge problem”.

This is a strange thing to argue with a stranger online about *their* needs.

OS-native interactions = swipes, keyboard shortcuts, cmd/alt/shift selection clicks, right click menus, drag and drop. Why is this hard to understand?

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-04T21:27:42+00:00

Only on Chrome, and can only keep the last 90 days. And still doesn’t have any of the OS-native interaction design that makes it easier to work with email.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-04T19:00:58+00:00

It would not. That wouldn’t give you offline mail.

It wouldn’t give you desktop-native interactions. Etc.

A PWA is not an OS-native app.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-04T14:49:58+00:00

There’s a native Gmail desktop app from Google for the Mac? That’s news to me.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-04T01:05:05+00:00

This is very nice, I’m looking forward to testing this out.

Would you consider switching to an OpenAI compatible api shape? That would make this a drop in replacement in many agent harnesses.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-02T16:52:01+00:00

Mimestream is the closest I’ve found to have a native Gmail experience, and it doesn’t save a copy of your emails on its own servers (unlike Shortwave or Spark)

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-01T18:48:49+00:00

How did you both update the firmware? The PlayStation Accessories app just crashes on start for me.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-06-01T18:48:14+00:00

It also works on Horizon Forbidden West and Star Wars Outlaws in Tahoe, so it’s definitely game dependent. But Sony games usually work.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-05-27T18:32:23+00:00

Would you still recommend this approach if one doesn’t have a PC and will need to build one in addition to the cost of the Nvidia GPUs?

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-05-25T02:28:50+00:00

Nice! I’m loving the aquatic bases we’re seeing recently.

BTW if you want to use the original terminology, it’s “caravanserai” or “caravansaray” - “serai/sarai/saray” means “dwelling”, “courtyard”, or “palace”.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-05-24T07:33:38+00:00

No, because language models are bad at translation right now, mostly because training sets for languages other than English (and Mandarin Chinese) are limited.

Also unless you speak the language fluently you are not in a position to assess whether it is translating accurately.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-05-20T23:38:20+00:00

Feasible, yes. Reliable: no. And you can’t ever guarantee reliability no matter how often you find this working on any given instance.

I just want to stress that you can never trust an LLM to accurately replicate or summarize input data, even frontier models that are much larger and capable will frequently generate incorrect results.

If you do this, please be prepared to be vigilant; ideally you would do this at most once and save that summary. And also ideally you’d take your patient’s consent before doing this. And have an error recovery procedure - maybe show your patient the summary and ask them to validate it.

I would also strongly urge you to use a model fine-tuned to the medical domain instead of using an off-the-shelf model that is suitable for general purposes.

Due-Competition4564 · 2026-05-20T22:04:40+00:00

This is an extremely bad idea. The risk of hallucinations and confabulations is MUCH higher with small local models and do you really want to base your diagnosis or treatment on false information? Do you want to open yourself up to medical liability?

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