Well it tastes like bourbon to me, so I don’t really what it’s called :P

Oof, it’s $60 now, it was $40 when I bought a couple of bottles of it. It’s kinda weird because I can’t find it on the LCBO site, I had to order it online.

I like it better than Wild Turkey or Maker’s. Not sure if I’d consider it to be high end tho.

Clan Colla (from Ireland tho, not Canada) is really good, better than Booker’s (which used to be my favourite) IMO. But that’s super hard to get, I happened to pick up a bottle of it at the Dublin airport and now in my circle we consider it to be the best. Which is kind of a problem since it’s so hard to get.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis all fire rockets at civilian population centers in Israel. Counter-attacking them can be considered Israel defending themselves.

Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Oman have not fired rockets (or weapons of any kind) at Iran. Counter-attacking the US and Israel would be defending themselves. What Iran is doing by not limiting themselves to counter attacking those attacking them is creating terror in the region. They’re being terrorists.

Sure no one doubts Iran’s motivation is outrage. So calling their actions as “lashing out” seems appropriate. If they only hit the US back, it would be called a “counter-attack” or something along those lines. Firing rockets at everyone in the neighbourhood is a strategic mistake, obviously emotionally motivated.

Sure, but shooting rockets at everyone in the neighbourhood including civilians isn’t defending oneself. What Iran is doing is terrorism, attacking civilians in an effort to pressure the governments in the region.

After the bubble pops how much would our lives be impacted?

A bunch of pensions will lose a lot of money. The billionaires will know when it’s the right time to short it, and so they’ll get wealthier.

Would AI vanish or still be there?

Higher end models like Mythos will still exist but be too expensive for most people to use. Lower end models will still exist. People will start developing actual tools focused on specific tasks using LLM algorithms instead of AGI. Companies will be able to buy LLM appliances they can put into their server rooms that will help with data analysis which doesn’t require sharing data which will be more useful for use with information they want to keep private.

Eventually people will have PCs, then laptops, then phones with chips optimized for LLM algorithms which don’t require sharing private information with a data center. It won’t be AGI, but it will be able to automate things on the computer and help with stuff like helping with grammar. People will be able to say something “computer, bring up the financial report from last week” and it’ll be able to do that. But it’s not going to be an AGI thing, just be able to find the correct program, files, etc. based on some simple cues.

How exactly do you think the bubble will pop? Will AI companies simply run out of money? Or will it be because of the environmental effects?

Similar to how the dot com bubble popped. Some chatter from billionaires about getting out results in them all shorting it at the same time, the share values collapse, but they make a bunch of money.

Will AI companies simply run out of money?

Yes, when they’ve gotten the last investment dollar, the billionaires will know it’s peaked which will result in a big short.

Or will it be because of the environmental effects?

They don’t care about environmental effects LOL.

When do you think the “pop” will take place?

You need to be invited to whatever is the present day equivalent of Epstein Island to know that.

After the bubble pops, in future there will be companies/people who will try the AI thing again? What will that be like?

Yup. We didn’t stop using the internet after the dot com bubble burst. It’s just the financials of it wasn’t insane anymore. LLMs can’t do everything, but it’s an algorithm that’s useful in some scenarios. It will still be useful in those scenarios, but people will stop being weirdos thinking that it’ll be able to do everything. It’s an algorithm, there’s a cost for the hardware and power to run it, in many cases it won’t work at all, in many cases it’ll work but be cost prohibitive, and then in a few cases it will be actually useful and cost effective. We’ll move to using it for only the latter case.

Over time, it will get better and be used for more things, some of the things they’re promising now may become a reality in a few decades. Kinda like the ridiculous idea to sell dog food on the internet during the dot com bubble. It was ridiculous then, but eventually the logistics caught up and more than a decade after the dot com bubble you could indeed buy dog food on the internet. I imagine it will be like that with AI. Eventually some (though not all) of the things they say you’ll be able to do in six months may actually happen… 15 years from now. But it will probably be enshittified and suck more than you imagined it would be.

Pretty sure OP has six fingers on his right hand.

Rideau Whiskey may not say it’s Bourbon on the bottle, but there’s bourbon in the bottle. Because of some dumb laws you can’t call it bourbon unless it’s made a certain region in the US, sort of like champagne. So we actually do have bourbon, even if it’s not called that.

0-27 ships!

Don’t think it’s just an Outlook thing, same thing happened to me in the file explorer. Weird thing is I opened another explorer window and that worked fine, while at the same time the other window was still unresponsive.

Just windows 11 failing at windows sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There’s a much much bigger indy market now. I’m sure people will still be playing games, just not AAA games they can’t afford on hardware they definitely can’t afford.

**trillions

There’s just a general downturn in the economy. People don’t buy video games when they’re struggling to pay for groceries.

That and MS probably wants to throw more into the AI money pit.

I haven’t been exposed to shit. Have you not been listening?

I don’t think you’re listening.

You’re on the internet, you’ve been exposed to foreign propaganda. If you’re conscious of it, you’ll be able to better spot it.

If you insist on being so naive and pretend everything that makes you outraged on the internet must be real, you’re open to manipulation.

How cute, you’re a millennial and so you think that makes you special. You’ve been exposed to imagery of a war on the other side of the world and so you think it entitles you to be an asshole to people where you live.

It may be hard for you to accept, but you’re not all that much different from the boomers. Just mindlessly consuming things on the internet that make you angry. Not giving any thought about who is making you angry and for what purpose. Boomers tend to gravitate towards the Russian propaganda, while you gravitate towards Chinese and Iranian propaganda.

The only thing that I find offensive about the Iran conflict is that western lives and resources are being wasted fighting people we have no reason to hate.

The Iranian regime is making you hateful. It’s easier to convince people of lies than it is to convince people they’ve been lied to.

My conversations with younger generations are basically identical to my conversations with boomers. Same tendency towards conspiracy theories, same distrust of any media source that’s not conforming to their feelings. Your generation doesn’t make you anything special.

Are you so naive as to think the Lego videos were the only thing they’ve produced? Iran is behind only China and Russia in terms of internet propaganda operations. It’s fairly trivial to count the number of accounts on social media that are active every day, but coincidentally not active at times when the power’s out in Iran. They operate troll farms same as China and Russia does.

How do you think the Lego videos came out of nowhere and got picked up by the algorithms? Upvoted by the troll farms.

I’ve seen some strange activity on Lemmy like the exact same content being posted from multiple accounts. Always pro-Iran and anti-Israel.

You’re being incredibly naive if you think they just put out some cute little Lego videos and nothing else. You’re the target of an information warfare campaign, and it seems to be working. You need to think a little more about what content you’d expect troll farms in China, Russia, and Iran would be producing.

There’s a difference between justice and revenge. There is no such thing as revenge against a country. Germany still exists today even after the horrible crimes committed by that country in the past.

You’re being told by Iranian propaganda that you’re supposed to hate a country. But hatred doesn’t make you strong, it only makes you stupid and gullible. Willing to die just to serve the interests of some psychopath.

a) is true, but b) is not true. There have been mass extinction events in the past that have been caused by a new species evolving. Things got pretty crazy when tree bark came onto the scene. Or maybe the opposite of crazy because a lot of things died off.

It would be worth it if Elon Musk would move there.

That just indicates nobody is beaming an uncompressed signal directly at use. Something not on a tight beam directed at us would disperse and get lost in the noise. A compressed data stream would be indistinguishable from noise if since we don’t know the compression algorithm and with any kind of interference at all there wouldn’t be any way to distinguish it from noise.

Getting a radio signal basically requires there to be an alien race that knows we’re here and wants to talk to us.