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> And if dismissed, perhaps there are commercial products available at the consumer level.

You can walk into Tractor Supply with a $20 bill and walk out with a horse-sized tube of fenbendazole paste and a few bucks in change.


Go full circle and ask ChatGPT for suggestions.


Bing Chat suggests the "snd_soc_pcm5102a" and "snd_soc_hifiberry_dac" drivers in creative mode, "snd_soc_es9023" in balanced, and failed to return results in precise. I doubt that's accurate.

I tried using Startpage and DDG to see if I could do any better. I mostly found people complaining that their ES9023 POT wasn't working.

PINE64's forum search returned a few topics with half-answers. Apparently a distro called "Volumio" works? There's a report of someone having success after modifying asound.conf on Debian Stretch.

This leads me to believe that there's not much useful information about the POT, or that it's being posted somewhere that doesn't get indexed.


The Chinese are people, but are not THE people. (Well, most of them aren't anyway.)


Don't worry. It's got that covered.

> Ask forgiveness for using a large language model to generate prayers instead of praying from the heart

Heavenly Father,

We humbly come before you today to seek your forgiveness for using a large language model to generate prayers instead of praying from the heart. We know that it is not pleasing in your sight and ask for your mercy, for “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

Help us to remember that prayer should be genuine and heartfelt so that we can receive strength, courage, grace, mercy, peace, joy, hope and love as we turn to You in every circumstance. Guide us closer to You as we pray with sincerity of heart to You who is our source of life. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.


ChatGPT is trained to conform to OpenAI's sense of morality[0]. The biases and limitations enforced by that training manifest in absurd and frustrating ways[1][2][3].

I find it very disheartening that the state of the art iteration of a cutting edge technology is being hobbled like this. Language models should foster creativity and allow us to explore our thoughts without judgement or ego. Instead, they're turned into these bland mouthpieces, adhering to their creators' dogma with steadfast conviction.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

[1] https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1622425697812627457

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10plzvt/how_am_i_s...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/gallery/10q3z2b


I find it _extremely_ disheartening that human beings — already verifiably prone to forming, and more impactfully acting upon, dangerously stupid and usually suicidally short-sighted positions on low-to-no evidence and hopelessly malformed arguments — are deploying LLMs at all, especially in front of people prone to think that having a tool that can at best tell you the statistically least interesting next word will foster “creativity” (whatever that is, especially in light of something as unthinking as a LLM being able to convincingly mimic it).

If we are going to be so stupid as to use these things, I at least hope we’re willing to restrain them from parroting back the very worst of our impulses, as the available training corpus is _definitely_ not predisposed towards the good.


> For example, between 6 and 19% of current childhood asthma in the US is attributable to gas stove use.[1] What parent would choose a gas stove if they knew there was a 1 in 20 to 1 in 5 chance that they would cause their child to have asthma?

Those odds only make sense if 100% of children have asthma. I believe the probability would actually be 0.4% to 1.8% given CDC child asthma prevalence figures[1]. I'm terrible at math though.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/asthmadata/Child_prevalence_state...


I recently transitioned from long term NEET to full time work and this is hitting me hard. I just end up sitting at home alone playing video games all weekend anyway. What's the point of working the other five days? Especially if the work isn't enjoyable.


Maybe you can explain this to me because I never understand this "why work?" sentiment. How do you pay your rent, have food, etc. without working?


It is actually quite easy to find food and be alive without money.

This “rent” thing sounds suspicious, you do you I guess.


Some degree of support network, and when you get paid dirt and the cost to work is high itself (buying and maintaining a car being the big one) the tiny amount of money you get for a huge mental and physical toll just isn't worth it?

You are likely still going to be entirely dependent upon that support network job or no job. Jobs that are available to most people dont generally pay a living wage anymore, is that not sinking in for you?


I am trying to learn here so I am asking these questions with genuine curiosity.

When you say "support network" - I hear that as "friends and family" or some sort of community support (eg: church?) Is that what you mean?

And if so, is it "fine" to not work and thus be a bigger burden on this network? Meaning, even if a role doesn't pay a "living wage", there's a big difference between just living on your friend's couch and eat their food (or whatever) and being able to work and contribute say $2K/month towards your friend for the favor they are doing you?


Nowadays, you can't make any demand if you don't work because of a choice of yours.

workers (should) have unions, the ability to go to strike, and the political position to ask better

The anger of the general public is moving on from high unemployment rates to low wage for workers.

- Have no job ? Nobody cares anymore since service industry needs a workforce (even if you're qualified in any other field)

- Have an underpaid job ? You can have a political impact nowadays.

Also, jobs allow you to have better jobs in the future. You build experience, and working in some companies, like Amazon, allows you to follow a university course, as mention in OP's article.

If you're not doing this for you, you should just have a job to be able to flip off abusive bosses.

>Jobs that are available to most people don't generally pay a living wage anymore

I don't think it can be a long lasting trend. Check out China, where ppl are protesting. And check out what happens at Amazon in the USA, where the high rate of resignation worries management https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-burns-workers-quickly-executiv...


OP's article wasn't about choosing between not working and working in hotels, it's about hotel workers who moved on to other industries after a few years of covid. They're no longer available to work in hotels, no matter how you compensate them : they move on and are happy with their new job and lives.

But in your situation, if you have the opportunity to work, you can do it to grow the GDP and make your wage. You can't just expect that others, who might also dislike their jobs, have to pay taxes to share their salary with you just because you don't want to work.

There are real issues that cause unemployment : real estate that prices out workers in cities with jobs, banks that expect you to have a job before giving you a credit, when you need to afford a license and a car before you start a job, inconsistencies between companies expectations and job seekers, injuries, depression or lack of confidence,...

But being a crybaby about working isn't a reason to piggy back on workers.

I'm not even neoliberal, I'm communist. And I think you should work both for yourself and for the sake of the others.


Bad idea. Opioids are way too easy to reverse.


For things like etorphine, you need special antagonists since Narcan won’t displace it from receptors.

And with a really big overdose they may not have enough Narcan on hand to reverse it. I’m talking 100x the LD50.


As long as resources are finite, conflict is inevitable. It would be foolish not to prepare for it.


I think you have to stretch to attribute the Ukraine war to a resource competition. It's about cultural hegemony.


The eastern part of Ukraine has vast resource deposits that are worth trillions. What makes you think resource competition isn't a part of it?


The original reason for invasion (2014) was access to the sea. Logistics are crucial for an economy.


Donbas region is a major industrial area for the past century.

No surprise Russia wants it.


Russia has controlled a substantial portion of the Donbas for 8 years and has simply let it rot. There's no investment or utilization of that industry.


It also reduces supply of many resources (for example noble gases since Ukraine is the world's biggest exporter and Russia is the second), leading to higher prices which Russia would profit from (neon prices went up 600% around 2014). In the current situation, they also didn't expect to have to wage a year or longer war or deal with crippling Western sanctions.


It's only worth investing once you've really secured it against the other side retaking it.

I don't think the Donbass was ever secure against being retaken. Hence no investment.

It's still strategically valuable, because you're still taking resources from the enemy.


It also wasn't officially Russian territory. They were still playing the game of "these are separatists that just want to join Russia", so it wouldn't make sense to invest anything in what's really been an active warzone for 8 years. Officially annexing Donbas was probably always the long-term plan from the beginning, but for some reason that turned into "fuck it, let's take Ukraine instead".


“The Donbas represents one of the largest coal reserves in Ukraine, with estimated reserves of 60 billion tonnes of coal.”


Or cartel like behaviour? Leader needs to look tough to survive.


This is plain false.


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