Exactly. Well put.

I think it’s very telling that the medication’s success metrics in part of the longer article linked in this one are about if the meds made them perform better academically, as opposed to making them have a happier and better experience of their own lives.

They really focus on it, like, “Oh, sure, they seem like they’re doing better but it’s only how they feel, they don’t suddenly get smarter.”

And, yeah, my ADHD drugs don’t make me smarter, but they drastically reduce the strain of dealing with tedious, pointless and unstimulating tasks.

I wonder which sci-fi novels it’s mimicking here.

I’m thinking about doing some personal writing about my feelings on the Internet of my youth and how I need to let go of it. So, somber?

Yeah! Also, sometimes I use emulators that work well on phones to play older games, I had fun playing Final Fantasy Legends 2 with RetroArch.

I enjoy the way this game plays with dice- it’s nice to see a designer who’s thinking about them as physical objects and trying out novel ways of employing them.

Over-all, I think this game is very cute- I like the way wounds/stress is represented and I think the variable dice sizes are fun. They put me in the mind of the Devil City and it’s 77 Vicious Princes. While I admire the creative and thoughtful exploration of dice as a tool, I do feel like this project seems a bit aimless. It think as a project it feels more like a personal thought experiment than a game, not because of a lack of complexity, but because of an unclear intention.

I would be pleased to see other things they make, because I think their ideas show promise.

My suggestion is to either change the context you play games in, or pick games that are very cognitively different from what you normally do at work.

You can change your context with a new console, but I think it may be cheaper to do something like buying a controller and playing games while standing up, or on your couch/armchair, or playing games while sitting on a yoga ball. The point is to trick your brain, because it’s associated sitting at a desk in front of a computer with boring tedium. Change the presentation and your subconscious will interpret it differently.

You can also achieve this by identifying the things that you have to do in your job that mirror videogame genres you enjoy and picking a game that shares few of those qualities.

I worked at the post office for years, doing mail processing, and my enjoyment of management and resource distribution style games went down sharply during that time because of the cognitive overlap- I played more roguelikes and RPGs as a consequence.

Thank you, I am trying to be less abrasive online, especially about LLM/GEN-AI stuff. I have come to terms with the fact that my desire for accuracy and truthfulness in things skews way past the median to the point that it’s almost pathological, which is why I ended up studying history in college, probably. To me, the idea of using a LLM to get information seems like a bad use of my time- I would methodically check everything it says, and the total time spent would vastly exceed any amount saved, but that’s because I’m weird.

Like, it’s probably fine for anything you’d rely on a skimming a wikipedia article for. I wouldn’t use them for recipes or cooking, because that could give you food poisoning if something goes wrong, but if you’re just like, “Hey, what’s Ice-IV?” then the answer it gives is probably equivalent in 98% of cases to checking a few websites. People should invest their energy where they need it, or where they have to, and it’s less effort for me to not use the technology, but I know there are people who can benefit from it and have a good use-case situation to use it.

My main point of caution for people reading this is that you shouldn’t rely on an LLM for important information- whatever that means to you, because if you want to be absolutely sure about something, then you shouldn’t risk an AI hallucination, even if it’s unlikely.

I’m not a frequent user of LLM, but this was pretty intuitive to me after using them for a few hours. However, I recognize that I’m a weirdo and so will pick up on the idea that the prompt leads the style.

It’s not like the LLM actually understands that you are asking questions, it’s just that it’s generating a procedural response to the last statement given.

Saying please and thank you isn’t the important part.

Just preface your use with, like,

“You are a helpful and enthusiastic with excellent communication skills. You are polite, informative and concise. A summary of follows in the style of your voice, explained in clearly and without technical jargon.”

And you’ll probably get promising results, depending on the exact model. You may have to massage it a bit before you get consistent good results, but experimentation will show you the most reliable way to get the desired results.

Now, I only trust LLM as a tool for amusing yourself by asking it to talk in the style of you favorite fictional characters about bizarre hypotheticals, but at this point I accept there’s nothing I can do to discourage people from putting their trust in them.

Intellectual labor is hard and humans don’t like doing difficult things, paired with a culture that’s increasingly hostile to education and a government that wants you ignorant- it’s easy to see how this happens in the US.

Getting annoyed that Meta brought so much attention to shadow libraries that make a lot of otherwise inaccessible academic information available to the general public.

Hopefully everything goes smoothly. Based on my experience, once you get to specialists they can pretty quickly arrive at a diagnosis if they’re not being purposefully obtuse. After all, the signs are pretty clear once they’ve been laid out in front of you and you’ve had personal experience with identifying them.

I took a two week break from social media because I wasn’t engaging with the political crisis situation in a responsible way. Now I’m just going to try to engage in more productive and meaningful discussion.

I wish you the best of luck. If it doesn’t go well, I suggest looking for people who specialize in ADHD/Autism to go to if you can. Hopefully, though, everything goes great! It went very well for me and my partner when we sought a diagnosis, and I hope you get similar fortune. : )

Thanks for responding, I appreciate it. What you’re saying makes sense.

When you say that about her being mentally ill with no empathy, what exactly do you mean? I’m asking because it’s easy to draw a lot of different conclusions from that statement, and I’m trying to make fewer assumptions when I don’t know people well.

Yeah, it’s a nightmare looking for jobs online right now. You could not design a system more unfriendly to neurodivegent people if you tried, it’s miserable to use your limited focus to put together a very effortful thing and it’s just being tossed in the blender.

You’re expected to tailor your resume, re-enter your resume information, pass personality tests, prove you have years of experience for an entry level position, make yourself maximally available for interviews, risk scams and exposing your information to botnets, write cover letters that are never read, do research into the company to be prepared to show interest in it- only to just… Never even hear back

I have never felt more like an animal performing for the amusing of a jeering, abusive crowd that this.

Part of the problem is that sufficient wealth seems to destroy people’s understanding of consequence. They don’t experience them very often, and so reach a point where they can simply pursue whatever their feelings tell them to do and the world magically restructures itself to allow them to do so.

Combine this with how the incentives of the social system result in the people who are most likely to pursue a selfish course being the most financially successful- you get a recipe for short-sighted, ignorant and self-important nonsense.

Sounds like ADHD to me. Are you seeing a specialist in Autism/ADHD or a generalist? I saw a psychiatrist who specialized in ADHD, which made it a lot easier because she knew what to look for and also was really ready to listen to me and help me.

She also was much more understanding about appointments because of it.

Hey, thank you so much for your contribution to this discussion. You presented me a really challenging thought and I have appreciated grappling with it for a few days. I think you’ve really shifted some bits of my perspective, and I think I understand now.

I think there’s an ambiguity in my initial post here, and I wanted to check which of the following is the thing you read from it:

• Generative AI art is inherently limited in these ways, even in the hands of skilled artists or those with technical expertise with it; or,
• Generative AI art is inherently limited in these ways, because it will be ultimately used by souless executives who don’t respect or understand art.