Viagra increases the effect of nitric oxide, which is bad stuff when it gets into cytochrome complex iv in the mitochondria (IIRC). I would personally suspect based on that, that its effects on brain health would be negative in spite of blood flow.
And I say in turn, it's a skill issue if your "website" or "app" could be made by a GPT in a few minutes. Is what you're doing actually valuable, then? It consistently fails to solve my problems.
While I can appreciate reasoning about AGI as a purely abstract thing (I loved Nick Bostrom's book, Superintelligence), it seems out-of-touch to believe it's at all likely to happen. Do these people even use GPT-4? Do they connect the dots of its capital to the dots of its performance, and see how we're already hitting a huge wall? All while losing MSFT cash and routinely failing to do even basic tasks?
I can't help but feel like I'm being marketed to. I've grown to completely distrust anything in this vein, since the reality of the system I see before me is so drastically inferior to how people appear to be reasoning about it. It's not like how a Model-T car differs from a modern one in safety, power steering, and so on -- it feels like an error of categories.
I wonder if internet access and instant-entry is /necessarily/ a distraction or impediment to deep thought, or it could be stomached to the effect of great productivity with an especially sharpened mind.
It saddens me that the most accessible repositories of information are those that, allegedly, dumb me down.
Added sugar is not necessarily problematic, but consumption of anti-thyroid substances like high amounts of PUFA (especially seed oils), chlorine, bromine, fluoride (in absence of iodine) can make it so, by way of increasing energy supply which is not properly consumed. Industrial pollutants like PFAS and hexane byproducts also play a role.
There's a very good reason why sugar is so "addictive" -- it's good for you! It's an obscenely easily digestible source of energy, whose products are used very easily by the cells. In the case of fructose, its consumption is relatively more insulin-friendly than the glucose-heavy starches. Sucrose is half glucose and half fructose.
Seriously "addictive" sugary foods are psychologically problematic usually for other reasons. Pure cane sugar is not very addictive when consumed alone. Try it.
Graduating from college in December, looking for an entry-level job. Interested in Backend and Systems. I consider myself self-motivated and a quick learner.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Soon to be back in New Haven county, Connecticut.
Remote: Yes, and strongly preferred.
Willing to relocate: Leaning against, I would like to stay near family. I would need a very good reason to relocate.
Technologies: Linux (for hosting, as a daily driver), NixOS, Docker, Python (incl. FastAPI, Flask, Django), C/C++, SQL. Also have experience in Rust, Java, mild Web frontend.
I think it's just poor value for money and time. One should focus instead on ways of eliminating the brain energetics disorder to obtain true freedom.
It's like being sober versus being attached at the hip to Narcotics Anonymous. Sure, it helps people, but it's much better, if possible, to not even need it.
The book "Mind and Tissue" by Ray Peat, available on LibGen (and amazon, for $200 used).
>Are drugs like Adderall or Ritalin sufficient based on this view?
From the text,
> the observation that drugs which stimulate the sympathetic or adrenergic nerves (ephedrine or caffeine, for example) will relieve the symptoms,
So yes, stimulant drugs can treat ADHD insofar as they cause a greater supply of energy to be delivered the frontal lobes. Needless to say that stimulants wear you out over time though. A more sustainable solution is to optimize for brain/body bioenergetics generally. You can read more on his website, raypeat.com.
I'm not a shill, the man is dead, I just think this information is far too important not to share vigorously. It's how I resolved my lifelong depression nearly effortlessly.
The somewhat higher rate of mental illness among higher-IQ people (according to some studies), to me, also points to an insufficiency of brain energy as the principal cause. A more energy-hungry brain will fail more readily under an even slightly faulty energy supply.
It makes sense given that systems programming is more in the realm of cathedrals like Universities, whose whole M.O. to begin with is having you do free work, underpaid work, or even pay to do work
Seeing as I cannot control all the software I have on my computers, I just gave up.
Everything in $HOME that I care about is in ~/my. $HOME itself is anarchic, and that's okay with me. I have better things to do than micromanage this.
I am personally skeptical of the role of omega-3 and omega-6 in dementia, at least, one should never take these as supplements. It is a medical fact that they are highly unstable and basically worthless after only a day or so on the shelf, if not harmful.
One should only look to studies of genetically identical populations (you should be able to find one about nigerians in america) that acquire dementia at a high rate to observe that something about our capitalistically engineered environments is principally to blame.