Yes, and we’re in denial about it.
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No mysteries left to ponder, just unending obligatory supplication. What bliss!
yemmly@lemmy.worldOPto ADHD@lemmy.world•Public Service Announcement: Get a sleep studyEnglish8·8 months agoIt took a year to get the insurance to approve mine. Then all they did was send a wearable pulse oximeter to my house for one night. The really crazy thing was the oximeter could only be used once and then thrown away, I think entirely just to boost the device manufacurer’s revenue. So it’s totally an outrageous racket, but it happened to help in my case.
yemmly@lemmy.worldOPto ADHD@lemmy.world•Public Service Announcement: Get a sleep studyEnglish1·8 months agoOnly time will tell. It has been about 10 monthe so far.
yemmly@lemmy.worldOPto ADHD@lemmy.world•Public Service Announcement: Get a sleep studyEnglish5·8 months agoAlso, I think it’s probably more the oxygen deprivation that is relevant in my case. Sleep apnea refers to just stopping breathing while sleeping, which may or may not result in a significant decrease in blood oxygen saturation. In my case, it was causing a big drop in blood oxygen saturation and I suspect this was the case for decades. Once that was corrected, I found it much easier to be “productive” in the narrow sense that normies use that word.
yemmly@lemmy.worldOPto ADHD@lemmy.world•Public Service Announcement: Get a sleep studyEnglish5·8 months agoI’m not suggesting that the CPAP cured me, just that I’ve found it to be a more effective treatment than medications, in my case.
yemmly@lemmy.worldOPto ADHD@lemmy.world•Public Service Announcement: Get a sleep studyEnglish42·8 months agoIf your theory of the disease is such that it has a singular cause, then I suppose this may be true and we could conclude that I was misdiagnosed. But if you view it as a set of symptoms that may have multiple causes, then we could conclude that I had a different form of ADHD than the one you describe. Regardless, I had the lived experience of someone with ADHD for a very long time. I’ll also note that ADHD was not a diagnosis that existed yet when I was a child.
What thing? Why are you being so vague? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING FROM US???
Or is it insane that it isn’t? I think life would be way more fun with buttons like that.
yemmly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its ReasoningEnglish431·9 months agoEvery time I hear someone talking up prompt engineering, I feel like I should say something. But I don’t.
yemmly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•‘It scared them off’, Kansas City shoppers report less crime thanks to security robot patrolling strip mallEnglish4·9 months agoThank you for your cooperation.
yemmly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of UsersEnglish19·9 months agoI like that someone in a position of authority is talking about this.
yemmly@lemmy.worldto ADHD@lemmy.world•The single most thing that improved your ADHD?English1·11 months agoAvoiding situations that allow others to define me on their terms.
yemmly@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Fox News host Jesse Watters thinks men who vote for women ‘transition’ to women1·11 months agoIt’s not dumbness, it’s cravenness. He’s saying things he thinks MAGA-bros like to hear. “Yeah brother, high-five! Burn those libs!”
Also the subtext here is that Jeff Bridges isn’t manly. I don’t think there’s a cure for that level of delusion.
I was talking with some scientists who told me that a mere touch on the hand from Jeff Bridges not only impregnates a woman, but also transitions her into a man.
I wake up each morning hairless, then I look into the mirror and speak the name Jeff Bridges three times. Instantly I’m transformed into a kind of human carpet covered from head to toe in three whole feet of man fur.
yemmly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AIEnglish1·11 months agoAnd I don’t mean to denigrate data science. It is important and powerful. And real machine intelligence may one day emerge from it (or data science may one day point the way). But data science just isn’t AI.
yemmly@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AIEnglish1·11 months agoThis is because the AI of today is a shit sandwich that we’re being told is peanut butter and jelly.
For those who like to party: All the current “AI” technologies use statistics to approximate semantics. They can’t just be semantic, because we don’t know how meaning works or what gives rise to it. So the public is put off because they have an intuitive sense of the ruse.
As long as the mechanics of meaning remain a mystery, “AI” will be parlor tricks.
Assassinating is so easy a child could do it. It’s getting away with it that’s hard.