I’m pretty excited for getting married in the next three hours!
Edit: I DID IT, LEMMY!
Lemmy to become mature enough to be a full replacement for Reddit
Already has
Not really, if you browse the big communities it has enough users but for more niche communities its not
neatlynearly enough to be a replacement for reddit
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.
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: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
My mum is coming to visit soon. I live in the USA and she’s back in Australia. It’ll be the first time she’s travelled overseas since the late '80s. She’s very excited about it :)
The company I work for changed their policy on paid vacations. Starting in August I’m going to have a lot of vacation days and I’m going to use them.
My 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!
Congratulations!
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
When 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.
Did the same thing with my wife! That was 9 years ago today 😋
Happy anniversary!
Congrats on the wedding, and I wish you a beautiful future!
Thanks!
Good luck it’ll be a blast!
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I’m 45 taking my 73 year old aunt to see it.
Specifically, good things on the World Wide Web: research. The amount of good information available is incredible, compared with pre-Internet times. Weather forecasts, what the space telescope is looking at, what’s happening in other parts of the world places in their own voice.
Sure, there is misinformation as well, and some people will cast doubt on anything they don’t like or try to drown it out, but get past that, and this is a golden age of knowledge.
It’s adult night at the skating rink tonight and I’m going 🛼
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The possibility that things might one day get better for humankind. We’re long overdue.
R E T I R E M E N T
possibly 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.
-2025 Humans back in the Moon
-Late 2020’s early 2030’s new missions to Venus
-Late 2030’s drone to Saturns Moon Titan
-2030’s maybe Humans on Mars
Having an early morning swim in the sea every morning for the next few weeks.
