[…] this technology is horrific for attention. It’s a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier and I have seen the same effect in every single one of my adult friends. Folk running 3 screens simultaneously working on totally unrelated “projects” they have little hope of maintaining, and such little commitment to the outcome that the time is obviously wasted.
Worth a read, whatever your opinion on LLMs.
Wow! I have ADHD but I wasn’t aware of all that! The cardiovascular and cancer thing really got me! But yeah I feel you…some times I wish I had this phone addiction and none of the other symptoms.
@HumbleBragger Stimulant medication gets you pretty much all your life expectancy back btw.
Oh no. I need my amphetamines to function (properly) but they will eventually kill me. What an impasse.
The low life expectancy and the demetia does not come from the ADHD itself but rather from the fact that ADHDers often do not get enough sleep and use both legal and illegal drugs (to which we get adicted easier) to compensate for our ADHD.
Also the world pretty much forces you to adapt into a system you are not compatible with. ADHDers have a delayed sleep rythm and we need on average one hour more sleep than the average human.
@HumbleBragger I mean, that’s the point: they won’t (unless you are unfortunate enough to get the cardiovascular side effects)