I thought about defining it up front but decided to move it to the second paragraph.
I would say it's worth talking to a doctor about how you feel. There are many things that can help. If you are in the USA, if is likely that they will use the PHQ-9 form, so consider looking at that questionaire to see how it aligns with your mood. medcalc is a common site that many of the residents at my institution use for these questionaires and other various scoring systems.
>If I had 6 months to live, and had no other options, I wouldn't care if a drug killed me in 10 days. Give me the option.
you're not being creative enough.
I agree with compassionate use cases, but be creative here : some drugs can create deaths much more miserable than the controlled burn of a 6 month descent into hospice care surrounded by family and loved ones.
6 months to live versus a possible supportive drug regiment with the side effects being constant pain until you slowly bleed out through your eyes after total sensory lock-in -- easy a choice to make? not for me.
Fine, what if the drug causes a violent psychotic break and you harm your loved ones?
What if some weird interaction sensitizes your nerves, and you spend your last weeks in incredible pain, begging to die? Not only would that suck for you, it would, again, affect your loved ones. It would also cause distress to the nurses that cared for you and the doctor(s) that administered it to you; remember, they don't just have to convince you, they have to convince medical professionals that this wouldn't be violating their code of ethics.
Big Pharma needs good data. And they have annoying FDAs/whatever-regulations-body slowing them down.
If you have a serious disease they might not mind you taking it. But if you have a serious disease plus your kidneys have already shutdown - w/e drug won’t save you. The death counts as a negative. “Let me take it anyway” well fine but it’s not some huge conspiracy.
It's not just those two choices though. It could be "6 months in relative comfort" and "10 days begging each minute to die but you can't because you're borderline unconscious". Or anything in between. Just saying.
Medical guidelines are there for a reason and are often, as they say in the military, "written in blood".
> "10 days begging each minute to die but you can't because you're borderline unconscious"
They aren’t going to know if it does that until they give it to a human in the first place. The only difference in giving it now is they lack a control group.
Having seen a family member die absolutely horrifically in a matter of weeks due to late-diagnosed pancreatic cancer, I'd consider suicide if I got the same diagnosis.
I found this green block in my back yard. It killed a dog because he was mostly cancer I think. Anyways just sign over hundreds of thousands of dollars, thanks! This will probably ki—er, cure you. What have you got to lose?
He asked ChatGPT to run the command in a sterile environment. He knew it was a bad idea to start with. It's a quick and dirty method in case you don't have a virgin VM lying around to try random scripts on to see what they do.
I'd say something edgy about paying attention but that wouldn't be nice.
It's a bad idea to try to execute a malicious string in any environment, but the payload is just base64 text and it's safe to decode if you understand how to use the command line.
Did ChatGPT do ANYTHING useful in this blog? No, but it probably cost more than it did when I ran base64 -d on my phone lol and if you want updoots on the Orange Site you had better mention LLMs
If I was more paranoid I could've used someone else's computer to decipher the text but I wanted to make a point.
The command helpfully already tells you where you can find a base64 decoder: it's in /usr/bin/base64.
Assuming you already have a ChatGPT window handy, which many people do these days, I don't think it's any worse to paste it there and ask the LLM to decode it, and avoid the risk that you copy and pasted the "| bash" as well.
That is also true of most smartphones. Smartphone batteries can be replaced, but specialty equipment and training is required. It's the same problem here, but much worse: they have to pack a significant amount of hardware into the space available. Even if they wanted to, it's unlikely that they could offer user-serviceable batteries.
TWS are better comparison. Smartphone battery need to be changed in 3-5 years and should cost < $50. People throw them away because new one is better and they have money.
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