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It must be filtering through the great collective unconscious :)

In fairness it wasn't original thinking from me, somebody kindly shared this paper elsewhere:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33605109/

Yes doc. It doesn't need to be in the drover, I would guess more likely in the camel.
Small risk but my gut says a lot bigger than billions to one.

Unless it recombines. A virus with a mers death rate and a covid infection rate would probably be Goodnight Vienna.
I have no idea how likely that is - probably a small risk but a very very bad outcome.

Lol

If they let it on the internet it turns into a nazi, but we have that problem with humans too.

It can write code. That's the biggest and most immediate impact, I think.

Put the two together and you could generate an endless number of convincing online personas. We better not tell Rob.

It can't do a joke like yours though, so I am confident you're not a synth.

You're right, there are better examples. It still falls down on all sorts of stuff, but as a sense of where things are going, it's pretty amazing. Like the early internet.

I asked it to write a Shakespearean sonnet about the fusion breakthrough. It did ok:

In these modern times, a Promethean soul
Hath stolen fire from the heavens above
And given it unto the mortal whole
That they may see the truth and power thereof

With this gift, the mortals have ascended
From darkness and ignorance into the light
But with this power, a heavy toll is bended
As the fire doth burn both day and night

Yet still, this Prometheus doth not regret
His brave theft, for it hath brought great gain
Though the gods may rage and mortals fret
He knows his deed doth pave the way for progress to reign

So let this sonnet serve as his testament
To the power of knowledge and the will to experiment.

If you haven't played with ChatGPT yet, I highly recommend it. It is certainly going to change things.

Disturbance in the force, innit.
He's out-trumping Trump now. Painful to watch.

Tesla hastened the adoption of electric cars by a decade at least, I will always be grateful for that. Spacex does amazing things, and is/was probably a necessary antidote to NASA's pork barrel problem.

I think he's been fairly easily manipulated by a certain faction and just lost touch with reality. He is used to having millions of sycophants orbiting his ego, it probably does some strange things to your psyche.

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/cancellation/confirmed

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
No coming back from that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVBCG6ThDk
If we can get Elon back on side we can build a moonbase
Yay moonbase

3 yrs on and we can't even be bothered to ventilate/filter public buildings. We have NHS staff refusing to mask around immunocompromised patients, and when they do it's surgical masks because they haven't even got appropriate FFP2 or 3s.
This is how ****ing revolutions start.

Congratulations to Germany on vanquishing that wee nazi uprising there. What, 50 of em, largely demented pensioners.
Like a nazi dad's army. Honestly - could they not at least try, there's no sport there, it's just watch and wait and round 'em up.

Tip - always use protonmail when plotting treason, that way the Russians can use your delusions for propaganda.
Frankly quite effective propaganda - I've never been more ashamed to be British than reading those pathetic weaselly toffmunching chuffing traitors.
We can't do em though can we, it might be bad for business.
Well I tell you what's bad for business - living in a ****ing banana republic.

So what's the plan here - accept that we'll just have 2 million folks ill with covid at any one time, ever increasing numbers of disabled and inactive, no PTs, no NHS, no A+E, just hang around looking sheepish until the mob turns up with flaming torches?

Really

True, though Aerogen has other benefits, e.g. very widely used so trusted/accepted by medics.
I would prefer a hospital trial where we get used before corticosteroids just because I have a nagging feeling that steroids might counteract us to some degree, but I'd take use alongside if that's the only option. Maybe that would make it more difficult to identify the more severe cases etc, I dunno.
I accept direct use for LC is unlikely - though maybe there will be acute stage trials more focused on LC?

Agree with Tommy, if we are on Strive we might well not be the first.

Anyway, it's not going away, it's not becoming endemic, it's not getting weaker, and we haven't got any miracle cures.
The drug still has enormous promise.
So sooner or later we get a trial, unless civilisation collapses.

GLA

Re activ2, we know we got limited sites, we don't actually know why. We also know it took 12 months to get the results through, and again we don't know why. Apportioning blame is probably unhelpful, as is attacking the company without knowing what's happened. In general, blame should probably be pointed at those with the most power, but even then it's all just human beings.

@Ghia it's only bickering if you disagree with it :)

More handbags and a few less dinosaurs please.

Just FYI doc, you're allowed to say screwed, bastard and twat. You can't say ****, ****, **** or *******s.

On the whole, humanity does seem to be struggling a bit.

To set up a pointless dichotomy, I've noticed that the people who have most consistently called things correctly re Covid are mostly under 40. I suggest that this because they retain more neuroplasticity - i.e. they are less set in their worldviews. Not that there aren't plenty of idiots under 40 and wise people over 40, just a general trend.

Interesting piece in the FT by the ever-insightful JBM: https://archive.ph/0z0QB

One recalls an apposite quote: What's the point of having a mind if you never change it?

As do you doc, as do you.
I am mildly exasperated by the infinite recursion of bullying bullies for bullying.
If we're all telling each other off, well perhaps we're all wrong.
I maintain hope that we will one day grow up, and emerge, blinking, into the light.

I must say I have enjoyed the bitter irony of free market ultras being walloped by the free markets.
Millions will suffer for their stupidity, but one finds these brief moments of levity where one can.
Perhaps those sections of the idle commentariat who rejoiced in that fiasco of a budget ought to be taken less seriously in future?

I apologise for my intemperate rudeness.
Polite service resumed.

One love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXLumLvHWfA

Are you referring to the British economy, old boy?
I've tried really quite hard to keep it going

Dear oh dear. First you must explain your earlier comment. "you don’t understand the position they have put themselves in and why."

I note you fail to answer a straight question ghia.
I suggest that poly are here to make money.

I hope you all appreciate the profound loss of the finest minds of this generation - they're all buggering off to greener pastures now.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-at-risk-of-brain-drain-as-scientists-leave-britain-to-avoid-losing-eu-research-funding-12716479

I'm quite a fan of the python's early work. There was a time when Mr Cleese made some very fine points against the silliest of establishments. Yet now, at 82, he is moaning about change in the employ of GB News, to pay his alimony. What a silly old twat.

Most welcome, Salem1973, who I've never heard of before, and never will again.