I’ve spend a lot of time on r/singularity the past year but over that time i have seen it grow pretty disappointing.
The complexity of “The Singularity” means that some great articles, like those on nanoparticles, get overlooked and buried because they’re harder to understand than a ChatGPT meme (no offense to those, though).
Finding new, high-quality content to share on this topic isn’t easy either, especially with the influx of sensationalist articles. And if I do find a great article, chances are high that @Martineski has already posted it (good job, by the way).
So, here’s an idea: why don’t we get some futuristic help? There’s a bunch of websites that are generally posted here more frequently because there content is just more aligned with out interests (my guess). We could have an AI sift through the .rss feeds from these sites, pick out the best articles, post them here and even include a brief summary explaining why you, an interested singularity enjoyer should care.
This could help us find and understand the right content more easily, and kickstart more engaging discussions about the singularity and our future. It’s a proactive step to keep our community vibrant and informative. Thoughts?
Yes this post was partly made with help from ChatGPT.
That’s not curation, that’s a smart(ish) bot account. And personally, I tried to get away from that. On the other hand, a not as such being a first line of moderation would be an interesting experiment. Along with a weekly counter of "X days since ‘I can’t do that Dave’ slipped up.
Joking aside, I don’t like the idea, mostly because it’ll get real spammy real fast. Even if the spam is on interesting things, it’s still spam. Call me old fashioned or whatever, but I prefer people posting interesting stuff and then actual discussions happening on that stuff over a glorified RSS feed.
It’s a curation of sorts of the whitelisted rss feeds. I agree there is definitely a risk of it becoming spammy so it should be used very carefully and
For the Ai summaries though I got my inspiration from “why you should know” rule on the YSK place and i quite like the idea not only to increase post quality but also with how diverse and technical singularity topics can get. I hope to find some deeper discussions here eventually.
What I’m most against is the spam. If for example it was a daily post with a repository of links to interesting stuff of the day, tech advancements etc, I’d be all in for it. But that doesn’t foster conversation.
In general, at first I was really happy with the subreddit. Then it became spammy and started scrolling past it. Then it became a circlejerk of ‘this robot peeled a banana. Woe me the singularity’ and I started flat out ignoring it.
Long as this community doesn’t turn to that and works either for discussions or a repository of knowledge on AI and science, I’ll be giddy to see new posts.
I think that at some point I will be doing weekly posts with curated by me posts where you can click on each topic and you will be redirected to the post with the article or paper where you can discuss it. The weekly post will be pinned and will have links to previous posts with curated news. I want to do it because the more people start posting the more average quality of the posts will go down and it will be harder to find more interesting ones.
Edit: I’m open to ideas on how to improve this sublemmy and protect it from worsening.
Edit2: Actually, I may start doing it as soon as we hit our first week of posts to get good at doing it before more people join so I don’t have to learn in front of many people lol.
