I’ve been exploring the idea of a fully offline intelligence system and wanted to get reactions from experienced engineers.
Conceptually: imagine a system that runs from a basic external HDD, uses no cloud services or paid APIs, and operates with strict determinism (same inputs → same outputs). No probabilistic behavior, no background daemons, no online dependencies.
The system would essentially behave as an offline, self-contained decision intelligence core that can reason across multiple life domains, all without touching the internet — and could theoretically be built with $0 in cloud/runtime costs.
Without getting into architecture or implementation details, my question is:
How viable does the engineering community consider a deterministic, offline intelligence system that fits on consumer hardware and has zero operating cost? What blind spots or risks would you expect in something like this?
Posting this as a high-level conceptual discussion.
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