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Let's talk hyperfixations (lemmy.pt)
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One think we can concur is that each and everyone of us has hyperfixations, some have permanent ones, others have cyclic ones but it's one of the things that makes us who we are and makes as happy.

My hiperfixations tend to be related to media, a tv series, a book series or about medical cases/diseases, etc. My 5 year hyperfixates (for now) on flags, countries, capitals and car brands and brands in general.

I try to stay away from some hyperfixations that cause me too much anxiety like true crime and real disasters (stampedes, wars, earthquakes, etc)

What are yours? And feel free to share some knowledge!

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[-] Cronch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My special interest is AI Its so exciting seeing so much new stuff come out everyday. I pretty much never run out of stuff to look at with how fast it's advancing.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a great situation to be in. What's something on the leading edge of AI that most people aren't aware but would likely find interesting?

[-] Cronch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think the open-source Orca ai model created by Microsoft is the biggest thing right now. They trained it by using Chatgpt and Gpt4 to explain complex questions to it. Currently, it outperforms Vicuna-13b which is pretty powerful when it comes to open-source models but more importantly it's comparable to Chatgpt and even outperforms gpt4 on some tasks. They said that there are still many things they haven't tried yet which could increase Orca's performance.

[-] Seven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

alpaca was said to be just "imitating" the style of gpt 3.5 only without the capablities but orca can both have the style and the capablities of gpt 3.5 and even outperform it. I think that is a very good advancement for the open source AI community c: unsure why they called it orca though, sounds a bit like an oxymoron to name a small model with a big brained animal

[-] Halasham@dormi.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Military and Political history. For the military side especially pre-WWII modern history. On the political side predominantly left-wing but not bounded much by time.

Sometimes it's interesting to read about the specifics of behaviors, statements, and actions of some historical figure or another and see the contrast with how they're remembered or how the current establishment likes to portray them... other times it's frustrating.

[-] Goat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yes! Mine is like “big question” stuff. Philosophy, religion, psychology, etc.

There’s an inexhaustible amount of ideas to explore, so there is some variability. But as much as I read, I have not read fiction in like 20 years. No other hobbies, etc.

Luckily I found my way to psychology so I can practice in that area (mainly with struggles I have been through from the inside-out) and even provide “consultation,” i.e. getting paid to have a willingly captive audience listen to me info-dump about my special interest.

Mu hu ha ha ha.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Mine is like “big question” stuff. Philosophy, religion, psychology, etc.

What have you found on a scientific definition of consciousness? Last time I went down that rabbit hole, they had trouble creating an objective philosophical definition for it.

[-] Goat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that if you don’t have a phylogenetically (history of species) and ontogenetically (development of individual) sensible approach to consciousness, how it evolved, and how it develops… then you are shouting at ghosts.

This is the most cogent and satisfying account I’ve found:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36937548/

Hope it’s ok to share sus dropbox link?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/niz2t7kzl0av4wp9nqw2r/a-biphasic-relational-approach-to-the-evolution-of-human-consciousness-un-enfoque-relacional-bifasico-para-la-evolucion-de-la-conciencia-humana.pdf?dl=0&rlkey=x0mapqjo4ohzbbw2w5rigtzw3

[edit] There is a whiff of ableism when the authors discuss extensions of their model to “developmentally delayed” children. I think they are mistaken here; and I don’t think this mistake undermines the core argument.

In other words, I think it’s easy to take the core argument and use it in a neurodiversity affirming (even celebrating!) way.

But just a heads up that most folks here interested in science and philosophy, I imagine, will delight in 97% of this, and cringe / get pissed off at 3%.

At least that’s my reading.

[-] sature@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

then you are shouting at ghosts

Or, in the more field-specific terminology: zombies 😉

[-] vanhalbgott@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@sature @Goat

Are they adorable zombies like these?

Sorry, I’m just in a good mood today.

[-] sature@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, boring ones like these

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