So, you're saying that defining new tokens is beyond the ability of LLMs?(and it *seems* right to me) Therefore AGI is beyond the ability of LLMs. That sounds like a good insight to me.

I've encountered this point before, but I've never understood why the US is worse than China as far as democracy goes. Can you point to anything in particular?

Thanks.

The diagram in the second link from the post suggests to me that an animal source of the virus is more likely. On that diagram there are four notes read that "Positive sample" with the location these samples were found, which were a combination "wall surface", "ground surface", "shoe bottoms", and "gloves".

The media has reported that transmission between humans happens from virus particles that are expelled while breathing. The fact that these samples were found on surfaces, and stuck to shoe bottoms, suggest to me that the virus in them was from animal droppings.

It sounds like they're right; we are living in a new Giled Age.

Don't forget, he also said that he had sent some one (or ones) to Hawii to "investigate", and he promised that they were finding "incredible things".

Afterwards, he never followed up. Not one peep that I'm aware of. Conclusion: He was flat-out lying: they did not find "incredible things", and in all likelihood, there were no "investigators". Does that count as one lie, or two?

In the UK cases started earlier, and they were slow to implement a lockdown. Thus, their cases rose quickly. They have since implemented a lockdown, but it's taking time for the death rate to come done. From numbers I've crunched, the seven day average four weeks ago had the UK adding deaths at the rate of 1.25/million/day, and Sweden at around 1.0/million/day. Now, those numbers are 0.50/million/day and 0.40/million/day.

I think the conclusion is that the UK's late lockdown is trending deaths downward faster than Swedens non-lockdown. Although the difference in the numbers don't seem that large to me, I wouldn't call it cherry-picking.

Because using the most recent week is better for understanding how recent adjustments in policy are affecting the disease.

Although Belgium has the highest death rate averaged across the entire infection, they have implemented a lock down. Using the most recent week's deaths, we see that lock down has reduced the death rate.

In Sweden's case, they have not implemented a lock down. Accordingly, a comparison of death rates over the past week shows that Sweden's death rate now exceeds Belgium's.

By the way, here's another explanation of why Belgium's numbers are so high (from BCC online):

Sweden has lost 376/million in about a month and a half, and they are still going strong.

They're on track to hit 1000/million by August 1 if nothing changes.

When you compare that to the 300/million for Germany's toll during their highest flu season, the two don't seem comparable.

Dear Slashdot. -

Thanks for posting this Wired article - I would have missed it otherwise.

I think it significant that non-political publications like Wired fell the need to weigh in on this train-wreck of a presidency and its enablers (i.e. Fox News) - it's an indication of just how out-sized the problem has become.

depended on mainstream media to propagandize to everyone that she was "a popular" candidate

The popular vote said she was more "popular" than Trump, and I think the "mainstream media" actually downplays that result.

Note: The reason our Founding Fathers included the 2nd amendment was to give the people the means to protect from oppressive,
bad government; ...

Not so fast. Here, is the second amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The first four words: A well regulated Militia. It means that you can have a gun so you can belong to a well regulated Militia which is part of the state, and whose job is to defend against foreign interference, not fight your own elected government.

But, isn't a knife problem an improvement over a gun/assault weapon problem?

My question is hypothetical since my current Chromecast audio is still fine, but for the record my Raspberry pi "server" lives
  in the basement, while the receiver in upstairs in the living room.

I'm guessing that you don't have any friends?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FTjp5OmoDYQM%3Ft...

I love my Chromecast audio. I use it with my 30 year old Sony receiver driving my 50 year old EPI speakers, serving up music from my Raspberry Pi running a minidlna server. Works great.

Does anyone know what it would take to rig a Google "Streaming Media Player" (i.e. the Video version with the HDMI output) to drive an old-school audio receiver?