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It honestly sounds like OP got the answer to her question but refuses to accept it. I guess there's also Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome, but there's not a lot of research into how it differs from just inattentive ADHD and no real effort has been made towards finding treatment besides stimulants and atomoxetine, so she might as well go with ADHD as the answer. That's the answer she's been given twice by professionals but rejects it, and she rejects even trying the treatment for some reason.

> None of these hold up under actual studies

I agree with you overall, but interestingly, research really has found a link between lower Vitamin B12/B6/B2 levels and ADHD. Also lower Vitamin D, and delayed circadian rhythm. You certainly can't use supplements as a replacement for stimulants but they may help.

And false negatives. I just pasted 100% AI generated code and it told me it's only 40% AI written.

With continuous use or a one-time dose? What was the dosage?

>My hypothesis about this for a long time has been stimulants help everyone be more productive (with some tradeoffs)

Of course they do. They're stimulants, that's what they do. Some people just need them to be closer to normal, or whatever's considered normal in post-Industrial society. Modafinil promotes wakefulness in everyone, not just narcolpetics. Anxiolytics calm down everyone, not just the anxious, and psilocybin makes everyone feel euphoric, not just the depressed. It would be weird if stimulants only had an effect of ADHD patients.

> and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

I don't think we really understand it yet, but it's not something most people have. As the article mentions, people ADHD have a higher rate of transportation accidents, lower life expectancy, higher crime rates, higher addiction rates, etc. The differences show up in brain scans, performance tests, genetic biomarkers, heritability/twin studies, etc. Whether you think of it as a disability, or brain type, or whatever - ADHD is something real.

> Probably something like this was lost when people stopped smoking, obviously beneficial for health - but a huge amount of the public was taking stimulants regularly via nicotine until relatively recently.

Yes, and this is possibly why 35-55% of adults with ADHD smoke today, compared to 19% of the population. Studies have shown that nicotine is helpful for everyone but particularly helpful for those with ADHD. Nicotine-derived formulations are still being explored.

Their API pricing is bonkers, their subscription is a great deal for what you get

I'd gladly do this for $50,000/yr given the chance. I have not been given the chance.

> Sure, but you can also describe monkey brain as being mindful of the wrong thing

The monkey brain is doing things on "autopilot", without noticing how your mind operates. It's the opposite of mindfulness.

> AI which still offer all sorts of opportunities for disruption

... such as destroying what's left of the entry to junior-level job market. And perhaps in the near future, mid-level too.

>I don't trust AI to translate anything accurately to are from a language outside of maybe Spanish and German.

But you trust scanlation groups? Neither will give you perfect, professional-level translations.

>Chinese, from my limited study is a bit closer to English in grammar and structure so that might work

Mandarin is full of nuance, and it's no closer to English than Japanese is. It has the Subject-Object-Verb grammar structure, just like Japanese and Korean.

> I’d just keep trying to draw public attention

This does nothing. It did nothing in 2016 and would do even less now.