regalalgorithm

regalalgorithm t1_j0x25ax wrote

For those considering a move to sigmoid.social, some info:

  • It is run/administered by The Gradient (thegradient.pub). Disclaimer - I am part of the team.
  • It has about 5500 active users currently, including some notable folks like Karpathy and AK
  • It is funded by users on Patreon
  • There is a detailed code of conduct on the about page.

Final note: I don't think it's a 1-1 replacement for Twitter. Twitter's Algorithmic feed is great for encouraging discovery of new stuff and seeing new memes. Mastodon's smaller scale and non algorithmic feed encourages a more community vibe with everyone's voice having equal weight. It's possible to use both (which I do - following the drama on Twitter is just too addictive).

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regalalgorithm t1_j0tie0w wrote

What you are seeing is the explore tab, which is all of Mastodon, not just sigmoid.social. Sigmoid Social content is over at the local timeline. There is some chatter about it on there too, but it's not really the main thing, here are some examples of recent posts:

>i was so sleepy i ended up falling asleep after extra time and I was so confused when I woke up and each side had an additional goal and France lost the world cup

>Fourier Sensitivity and Regularization of Computer Vision Models https://openreview.net/forum?id=VmTYgjYloM

>Some like to think that we're a trillion data points away from general artificial intelligence. Some like to think that we're some hundreds or thousands of algorithms away. I like to think that we're only several truly profound insights away. But these aren't mutually exclusive.

>The primary reason we don't yet see current AI as sentient is because there is no "goal" module. Once AI is infused with something that makes it "want", then it will appear very sentient to us.

Also, a TON of people migrated to Mastodon today due to Twitter drama, so it makes sense there is a lot of discussion about it.

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