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m15otw , to showerthoughts in I wonder how often Gary Gygax just rolled a D20 to make life decisions

I actually use a dice (D6, 50:50 choice usually) to decide between two options sometimes.

The idea is to fool my brain into revealing what it really wants. Like, if I can’t decide, I’ll assign each choice odds or evens, then roll.

If I’m OK with the result, then it decided for me no problem. Maybe I didn’t care, maybe I preferred what I rolled.

If I don’t like it, then RNG just showed me what I really wanted – now I can go with the other option.

Reduces decision fatigue, and speeds up my life. I’ve been teaching it to my kids (although their favourite RNG is the Chwazi app.)

pinkolik , to futurama in Lemmy.world c/futurama subscribers just hit 56!

You have at least one from my instance haha

DmMacniel , to nonononoyes in Milk

Only Glas of Milk could defeat John Cena in a Lumberjack Match…

magicalbeast69 , to steam in Steam likes to keep it interesting in the UI department

Someone should make a game show where you guess what button it is without the text lol.

batterysoup , to android in First screenshot of Sync for Lemmy

Can't wait for this. Will have to wait a while longer for kbin support.

Potato_in_my_anus , to aww in Meet my sweet girl Penelope

She looks like she’s checking her new owners. 😍

ecks90 , to mildlyinfuriating in Online dating

Almost as infuriating as giving chatGPT compilation errors and going in circles for a code fix

Wololo ,

I literally broke down into tears doing this one night. Was running something that would take hours to complete and noticed an issue at maybe 11pm. Tried to troubleshoot and could not for the life of me figured it out. Thought to myself, surely chatgpt can help me figure this out quickly. Fast forward to 3am, work night: “no, as stated several times prior, this will not resolve the issue, it causes it to X, Y, Z, when it should be A, B, C. Do you not understand the issue?”

“I apologize for any misunderstanding. You are correct, this will not cause the program to A, B, C. You should… Inserts the same response it’s been giving me for several hours

It was at that moment that I realized these large language models might not currently be as advanced as people make them out to be

tweeks ,

Might I ask if you were using Chat-GPT 3 or 4? I had this as well, got send into circles for hours, with 3. Then I used 4.

Only two bloody messages back and forth and I got my solution.

musicworld ,

Is 4 trained on newer data than Sept 2021?

Sentau ,

Yes

tweeks ,

Just a little bit, the main set is just September 2021 but some specific additional data (and other modifications) has been used to further improve the model.

Wololo ,

If I remember correctly it should have been gpt-4, of course, there is always a chance it was 3.5

Since then I’ve learned much better ways to kind of manipulate it into answering my questions more precisely, and that seems to do the trick

Shush ,

IIRC, 3.5 is the freeware and 4 requires a subscription.

tweeks ,

Yes, and 4 has access to several custom plugins, live web browsing (temporarily disabled though) and a Python Interpreter (soft launch, as I can use it but did not see a release post yet). All in beta though.

tweeks ,

One might wonder who is training who.

twitterfluechtling ,
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They are trained to give answers which sound convincing on a first glance, for simple questions in most fields that strongly correlates with the correct answer. So, asking something simple on a topic I have no clue has a high likelihood to yield the answer I’m looking for.

The problem is, if I have no clue, the only way to know if I exceeded the “really simple” ralm is by trying the answer and failing, because chatgpt has no concept of verifying it’s own answers or identifying its own limitations, or even to “learn” from it’s mistakes, as such.

I do know some very similar humans, though: Very assertive, selling guesses and opinions as facts, overestimating themselves, never backing down. ChatGPT might replace tech-CEOs or politicians 😁

Wololo ,

It’s entirely possible! I remember listening to a podcast on AI, where they mentioned someone once asked the questions “which mammal lays the largest eggs” to which the ai responded with elephants, and proceeded to argue with the user that it was right and he was wrong.

It has become a lot easier as I’ve learned how to kind of coach it in the direction I want, pointing out obvious errors and showing it what I’m really looking to do.

Ai is a great tool, when it works. As the technology improves I’m sure it will rapidly get better.

blargh1111 ,

So is the answer a platypus? I think that’s the only mammal that lays eggs, but now I’m wondering about echidnas.

Trainguyrom ,

Another fun example is “how many giraffes have been landed on the moon?” Because it’s a question that lends itself to a creative answer but obviously the answer is 0, no giraffes have been flown into space

kicksystem ,

Oh yeah. I was learning some Haskell with the “help” of GPT4. It send me down a super frustrating rabbit hole where in the end I concluded that I knew Haskell better than GPT4 and it was wrong from the very start 🤷‍♂️

Wololo ,

When you end up resorting to saying things like “wow, this is wonderful, but… It breaks my code into a million tiny pieces” Or “for the love of God do you have any idea what you’re actually doing?” It’s a sign that perhaps stack overflow is still your best (and only) ally

mrfriki , to mildlyinfuriating in Online dating

But you got to know what kind of person she is, right? The app did its job.

twitterfluechtling ,
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Came here to write the same, you beat me to it 😁

lemmy_see ,

Realistically, the yellow bubbles is a he

lobster_irl , to showerthoughts in I wonder how often Gary Gygax just rolled a D20 to make life decisions
@lobster_irl@kbin.social avatar

D20 flat roll seems like a lot, I’m thinking he needed his pluses sorted and then reaction rolls with varying DC based on circumstance.

amrawr , to aww in Meet my sweet girl Penelope

What a heckin cutie 😍

LexiconDexicon , to retrogaming in Exploring Nintendo of America's Employee-Only Museum - Redmond, WA (2006)

Neat! Ah to be 16 again… 😭

Saneless , to aww in That feeling when your rescue finally fully trusts you is magic <3

Ours fell asleep on us the first night and has been a pain in the ass sleeping between us in our bed since that first time over a year ago. Wouldn’t have it any other way though.

We picked her because she was all over us the second we were with her in the shelter

MudSkipperKisser OP ,

Oh this guy weighs 22lbs and between him and our 14lb dachshund my husband and I have 1/16th of the bed. This one kicks in his sleep too, like hard! But I wouldn’t change a thing

AberrantJ , to showerthoughts in I wonder how often Gary Gygax just rolled a D20 to make life decisions

Futurama had a great joke - Gary was being introduced and he said “Hello there it’s a” rolls dice “pleasure to meet you!”

lemmybrucelee OP ,

That is awesome

mySFWaccount , to aww in Meet my sweet girl Penelope

I would die for Penelope.

Tolstoshev , to showerthoughts in I wonder how often Gary Gygax just rolled a D20 to make life decisions

Do I have the book for you:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man

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