PercySeeing all this bad and negative things going on the internet let's change the pace, what is something that's good and you're excited for?
Blaze (he/him)Lemmy to become mature enough to be a full replacement for Reddit
OsrsNeedsF2PAlready has
👨🚀🔫👨🚀
NicoCharruaNot really, if you browse the big communities it has enough users but for more niche communities its not neatly enough to be a replacement for reddit
I remade the niche communities I browse here.
Yes, only one other person posts on it, and they don’t post exactly what I want, but that’s how it is
I’m excited. I really missed Apollo. So this is filling the void bit by bit. :D I just signed up 10 minutes ago. It’s awesome so far!
Welcome!
Thanks. :3
Hey, would you happen to know how to change the avatar on the profile? I looked everywhere in the app. I only see feed UI settings, etc…
There should be a “upload avatar” button
I dunno… why can’t Lemmy just be its own thing tho? I might’ve been using reddit wrong or something but Lemmy feels so much better from the start for me.
At least if there is an interesting topic or a question I don’t have to scroll thru the same jokes or worse — joke trains, yeah sure, the beans happened, maybe I am getting too old to fully connect with the joke, whatever, but at least it is kinda self-contained, my wild guess would be if beans happened on reddit, all the comments would be BEANS! for a month everywhere…
From a time perspective — I am really appreciating some amazing posts on Reddit with great histories and comments that I was reading for hours, some great AMAs or even the funny content if it was fresh.
With all this said, overall reddit was mostly a really specific shit hole for me, yes, shit hole where occasional diamonds occurred but still. I can’t wrap my head around how imaginary internet points can distort even the most basic interactions.
I have no idea what the beans thing us, but I’ve been on kbin instead of lemmy for quite some time so maybe I missed it.
SuRiYathe barbie movie :)
I’m 45 taking my 73 year old aunt to see it.
Given the nature of the original post. All I can say is I hope you have a good time.
ShySparkpossibly getting a new laptop that is slightly better than my desktop, i hope to get into something like peertube/content creation but im still thinking it thru.
Go for it man! Since you’ve been thinking about it, you probably have the means and the talents to start. Why not do it? We’re rooting for you!
thank you i might start a gaming channel once i get a laptop, becasue it seems like the most fun and i hope to get a laptop soon but im still thinking about things like what i should do, and thanks.
You can do it! What’s the worst that could happen right?
My lunch
The fediverse is something I’m excited for and it’s still in it’s infancy so it’ll be intersting to see how it plays out as it starts getting more polished and user friendly.
Despite the doom and gloom of AI I think it’s been really cool, and one area I’ve seen it help is for my relatives where instead of me having to solve basic tech issues AI has helped. When it develops into a full on companion that will do things it asks them to I’ll be bothered less and less.
100% with you, but it needs to find a way to make itself more accessible to the average person. It’s a bit of a learning curve and there are a lot of people who won’t jump ship from the simplicity of Reddit because of that.
For me I have been having fun testing novel ai and trying tk play pseudo rpg adventures alone, I will probably never share anything but it has been really fun to try AI as a single player experience.
I watched this AI npc in Skyrim and the level of interactivity it brought is amazing. So often in games characters quickly run out of lines, and feel like dead mannequins in open world games. Having a game world where there are lasting consequences because NPCs remember what you did is going to be cool. As opposed the same lines being recycled over and over.
This AI Mod just transformed Skyrim forever!
𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶This is something I’ve wanted to try. I still want to have with people but I can’t always. I think it could help me flesh out a campaign too.
It’s frustrating to see peoples’ imaginations run wild with AI. They’re not building “sentient” machines. There will never be machines that are sentient in anything other than appearance, and we’re notoriously easy to fool in that way.
My favorite way to describe AI that I’ve heard is “applied statistics.” It’s basically just processing huge amounts of data, very fast, simultaneously, and then presenting conclusions that are usually very likely.
Yes, it will be used to make weapons that are horrifically efficient, but likewise it will be used to make defenses that are equally efficient.
I think the good will ultimately outweigh the bad. Hopefully by a long shot.
LLMs are spontaneously developing theory of mind and nobody knows why or how, meaning that now ChatGPT and the like are able to consider what the user is thinking, opening some avenues for actual manipulation. GPT-4 can solve 95% of ToM tasks that a 7-year-old could.
Source: arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
Theory of Mind Might Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
We explore the intriguing possibility that theory of mind (ToM), or the uniquely human ability to impute unobservable mental states to others, might have spontaneously emerged in large language models (LLMs). We designed 40 false-belief tasks, considered a gold standard in testing ToM in humans, and administered them to several LLMs. Each task included a false-belief scenario, three closely matched true-belief controls, and the reversed versions of all four. Smaller and older models solved no tasks; GPT-3-davinci-003 (from November 2022) and ChatGPT-3.5-turbo (from March 2023) solved 20% of the tasks; ChatGPT-4 (from June 2023) solved 75% of the tasks, matching the performance of six-year-old children observed in past studies. These findings suggest the intriguing possibility that ToM, previously considered exclusive to humans, may have spontaneously emerged as a byproduct of LLMs' improving language skills.
TheEternalBambzipMy wedding in 11 days. Even though I’m somewhat stressed because I’ll have to travel for it and there are some moving parts, I’m excited. Wife is taking it pretty well and she is excited as well!
Good luck it’ll be a blast!
Here’s hoping!
Everything will work out perfectly, congratulations!
Thank you <3
NusmCongrats on the wedding, and I wish you a beautiful future!
Make sure to make a conscious choice to stop every once in a while and take the moments in, otherwise you might not remember anything because things are happening so fast on the day
MaericWhen I got married I made the decision to avoid going around to all the guests and make sure they were happy/entertained etc. At the reception I basically stayed near the main table and just enjoyed the night. If people wanted to come and chat then they could.
Remembering that it was mine and my wife’s day took a real load off and helped with a lot of the pressure of the event.
Thank you for this. Exactly what I’m planning on doing. I’ll just dance the night away basically.
I can’t recommend it enough. I spent our engagement party running around making sure everyone was having a good time, and didn’t enjoy it at all. Enough was enough.
Hope you have a great time!
Thank you!
Did the same thing with my wife! That was 9 years ago today 😋
Happy anniversary!
I literally made a comment saying the exact same thing some 10 days ago! i’ll make sure I take a second and take it all in. Thank you!
Hope you have a great day! Wishing you two all the best!
Thanks <3
The last 10 days leading up to my wedding were my most stressful but come wedding day it was gone all I cared about was being married to my favorite person. You’ve got this and CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yes, of course. I realize it is normal, especially seeing my wife taking it in great stride.
Thank you <3
cs127wishing you all the best!
thanks <3
grats!!
thank you!
Congrats in advance brother/sister! I literally just got back from mine and it went perfectly!
Thank you! and that is awesome! Congrats <3
Something will go wrong, but it won’t matter. Focus on the important things
That is the plan indeed! thanks!
Congratulations!
It’s my anniversary, so I’m looking forward to having a nice dinner.
Chat_motsHappy anniversary 🎉🎂
Thanks stranger!
The possibility that things might one day get better for humankind. We’re long overdue.
VitaManIf you look at overall worldwide poverty and starvation numbers, coupled with medical advancements and indoor plumbing, now is a pretty good time to be a human. Yes, there are lots of problems, but the standard of living (for the average person) has gotten so much better in the last 200 years
Absolutely agree!
I’m currently midway trough Peter Zeihans “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning” and just started Yuval Noah Hararis Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow. So far it’s a nice contrast. I’m painfully aware of our currently novel situation and hoping things are gonna keep heading in the right direction. Actually would really want them to, trying my best to make them: …github.io/…/Decentralized-Autonomous-Communities…
