[Firmwarrior]

Is it weird if I carry a phone with this and a solar charger around at all times, in case I suddenly get hurled back in time?

[jrflowers]

A machine that tells you that the Golden State Warriors won the 2012 Stanley Cup by bowling a perfect 300 would be invaluable in 1602

[elzbardico]

In that case no need for a LLM, just a wikipedia dump with a full-text index is enough.

[fbdab103]

Wikipedia is going to hallucinate significantly fewer facts than an LLM.

[TN1ck]

Also put the latest dump of Wikipedia on your phone (Kiwix is great for this). The complete English one with images is about 100 GB.

[peterburkimsher]

And for older phones, Wiki2Touch is a jailbreak app that does the same without images in about 14 GB.

I'm writing a Wiki2Touch archive viewer for more modern iOS, because my iPhone SE doesn't have 100 GB free for Kiwix.

[thom]

I have offline Wikipedia and maps for similar exigencies.

[LewisVerstappen]

I think it would be far better to just store a bunch of epubs on your phone in case you get hurled back.

Textbooks on physics, chem, etc.

[genman]

I think a great caution should be used with modern physics and chemistry - it may be a way to get yourself killed for sorcery.

But if you want to say alive then I'll recommend including few books about creating modern medicine from scratch - like creating aspirin from willow bark and penicillin from molded bread.