Coolguy1337
8mo ago
I suffered from insane chronic pain for over 10 years. It's largely gone now by simply troubleshooting the problems the same way one would fix a computer/program (and not listening to moronic doctors and woo woo people. "oh man we can't figure out what's wrong, have you considered it might be a mental problem?").
Arthritis is caused by something. It's basically a sign that your body is breaking down in some way. Your body is probably just not producing enough lube for your joints. This causes pain. It has real causes, even if they are difficult to figure out.
Hypermobility is just a catch all term for the body failing to upkeep structures that depend of collagen. Might be purely a genetic defect with no known cure, but is more commonly (in-part) impacted by a broken methylation cycle. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10122021/
In case TMJ is still a problem this has a high probability of helping. https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/media/qcxidm43/69966tmj.pdf (case study) https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k11yw5/after_5_years_of_jaw_clicking_tmj_chatgpt_cured/
CPTSD is largely a fancy word for the mind being unable to cope with a stressful event. You need energy to deal with stress, lack of energy makes smaller problems overwhelming too.
The reason doctors have not been able to solve this is because their system is build on reducing symptoms. Not solving anything. Not understanding anything. This was fine 50 years ago, but now science has advanced without them. And they don't care because they are making the big bucks. Public knowledge advances a funeral at a time.
If you're eating the SAD, stop doing that. It's basically poison. Eat food that contains nutrients.
Try fasting for ~48 hours. Obviously don't start with 48 hours, but work yourself up. Maybe 18, 24, 36, 48. It's very possible that you are reacting to the food you're eating and this is an easy way to test that.
Try a mitochondrial cocktail. Tends to boost energy production short term. Good way to see if something global is broken.
Take bloodwork for common nutrient deficiencies. But also realize that this might not be enough to catch the problem. https://old.reddit.com/r/B12_Deficiency/comments/1lfyftj/the_problematic_philosophy_behind_b12_serum_tests/
However please note that none of these things are guaranteed to work, your body might just be unfixable, but the odds are high it might be improved somehow. So take your health in your own hands and start learning how the body works. Do some experiments, and see if anything has an impact.
Coolguy1337
11mo ago
I've tried the reasoning models. They fail just as much (just tried Gemini 2.5 too and it did even worse). The purpose was to illustrate an example of how they fail. To showcase their poor reliability. I did not say they won't get better. They will, just not as much as you think. You can't just take 2 datapoints and extrapolate forever.
And I don't get your example, wouldn't the NICE CKS be in the dataset many times over? Maybe my point wasn't clear. These tools are amazing as search engines as long as the user using them is responsible and able to validate the responses. It does not mean they are thinking very well. Which means they will have a hard time doing things not in the dataset. These models are not a pathway to AGI. They might be a part of it, but it's gonna need something else. And that/those parts might be discovered tomorrow, or in 50 years.
And I don't see why reality will smack me in the face. I'm already using these as much as possible since they are great tools. But I don't expect my work to look very different in 2030 compared to now. Since programming does not feel very different today compared to 2015. The main problem has always been to make the program not collapse under its own weight, by simplifying it as much as possible. Typing the code has never been relevant. Thanks for the comment btw, it made me try out programming with gemini 2.5 and it's pretty good.
Coolguy1337
11mo ago
Confusion sets in when you spend most of your life not doing anything real. Metrics and statistics were supposed to be a tool that would aid in the interpretation of reality, not supercede it. Just because a salesman with some metrics claims that these models are better than butter does not make it true. Even if they manage to convince every single human alive.
I just tried out GPT 4.5, asking some questions about the game Old School Runescape (because every metric like math has been gamed to hell and back). This game has the best wiki every created, effectively documenting everything there is to know about the game in unnecessary detail. Spoiler: The answer is completely incoherent. It makes up item names, locations, misunderstand basic concepts like what type of gear is useful where. Asking it for a gear setup for a specific boss results in horrible results, despite the fact that it could just have copied the literally wiki (which has some faults like overdoing min-maxing, but it's generally coherent). The net utility of this answer was negative given the incorrect answer, the time it took for me to read it, and the cost of generating it (which is quite high, I wonder what happens when these companies want to make money).
Same thing happens when asking questions about programming that are not student-level (student-level question just returns an answer copied from a text-book. Did you know you can solve a leetcode question in 10 seconds by just copying the answer someone else wrote down? Holy shit!). The idea that these models will soon (especially given the plateau the seem to be hitting) replace real work is absurd. They will make programming faster, which means we'll build more shit (that's probably not needed, but that's another argument). They currently make me about 50% faster and make programming more fun since it's a fantastic search tool as long as it's used with care. But it's also destroying the knowledge of students. Test scores are going up, but understanding is dropping like a stone.
I'm sure it will keep getting better, eventually a large enough model with a gigantic dataset will get better at fooling people, but it's still just a poor image of reality. Of course this is how humans also function to some degree, copying other people more competant than us. However most of us combine that with real knowledge (creating a coherent model of something that manages to predict something new accurately). Without that part it's just a race to the bottom.
But a lot of people are like you, so these models will start to get used everywhere, destroying quality like never before. For example, I tried contacting a company regarding a missing order a few weeks ago. Their first line support had been replaced by an AI. Completely useless. It kept responding to the question it thought I made, instead of the one I made. Then asking me to double check things I told it I had checked. The funny thing is that a better automated support could have been created 20 years ago with some basic scripting (looking for order number and responding with details if it was included.). Or having an intern spend 30 second copy-pasting data into an email. But here we are, at the AI revolution, doing thing we have always been able to do, now in a shittier and more costly way. With some added pictures to make it seem useful. Fits right in in the finance world I guess?
I can however imagine a future workflow where these models do basic tasks (answer emails, business operations, programming tickets) overseen by someone that can intervene if it messes up. But this won't end capitalism. If you stopped LARPing on this forum/twitter you would barely even notice it. Though it is a shame that graphic design and similar things will be hurt more than it should.
Check out this video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=SGaQw5HyX38 Some parts of it are a bit boring so if you feel like skipping it just jump forwards instead. There is a lot of modern research / experiments on autism on the internet. Other simple remedies are things like limiting carbs, folinic acid, fixing sulfur metabolism (molybden) and anything that boosts mitocondrial function.
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