ADHD is disabling & esp so for us who can't take meds. On this, there's something a bit upsetting when people insist it's a superpower *just* because they are impressed by the output. Do they see us as a machine or a chatbot which has value because of the nature of the output? Feels dehumanising.
As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.
If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:
Saying AI is bad, but it's ok for coding is the kind of logic that got us into this mess. Nobody takes this seriously anymore. And relatedly, ditto for when they keep insisting that usefulness is the hinge on which to evaluate the tech, as if we claimed the problem with AI is it's not useful. 1/n
Sometimes seeing people I liked, studied with, became friends with at conferences over the past 15 years become AI boosters actually hurts my feelings. Other times it was fully predictable because they only did degrees to work for Google or IBM back in the day or to start a weird little start-up.
I keep hearing the argument that the 3 big pro AI academics who are usually doomers are right BECAUSE they're experts. What's important about experts is we declare our *perceived* conflicts of interest. How many AI company shares do they own? Because employees are often paid in shares in any case.
I'm so tired of interacting with those who think that parasitic industries aren't vile: ones that depend on services we all own collectively to fail, e.g. so-called AI for supposedly helping the underserved educationally. I hate companies who steal labour for profit too. Or damage the environment.
somebody non-maliciously linked me to the recent meltdowns over people doubting AI and it's honestly istriking that so many people's belief in AI, as a force for mathematics in this case has, no tempering, no connection to how companies have been lying and stealing for centuries 🧵👇🏼
There's quite a few superficially AI critical ostensibly pro-science and -academia accounts who pretty consistently bully women on here who are critical of AI. I'm aware this is just saying that misogyny exists, but yeah: reminder! The attempts at silencing and dogpiling are disturbing.
If you all have an ounce of self control left, please stop polluting by posting the output of nonsense chatbots on here as if it's funny or charming. It's 2026... we're tired of seeing it.
