It ruined my friend's startup. Junior dev "wrote" WAY too much code with no ability to support it after the fact. Glitches in production would result in the kid disappearing for weeks at a time because he had no idea how anything actually worked under the hood. Friend was _so_ confident of his codebase before shit hit the fan - the junior dev misrepresented the state of the world, b/c he simply didn't know what he didn't know.
The agitations there are certainly rather mild. The parents are out sharing the worst examples they could find, and there's nothing really that damning or explicit. The parents noticing it coincided with his use of the ai (though in reality that connection probably was made after the fact), but also that time period was when the boy was 13 and into 14, it's a common time for significant behavioral changes.
Tesla (Elon Musk) is under investigation for fraud for insinuating robotaxies are just around the corner, and you should buy the already available hardware for 100k that'll yield you 30k/year in the near future.
When it became public knowledge, more value was written off Tesla stock than Enron, Theranos and Nikola combined.
VDH's career skyrocketed once he became a regular among the RW media, especially when lots of handwringing about Western values under siege is required.
I was amused by one of his early books, in which he bitterly complains about his poor experience in academia: part of one of his bellyaches was that at home he could piss outside but at the university they wanted him to use the bathrooms.
I'm using a Dolphin Neurostim VNS to recover from COVID-induced anxiety. I'm getting better over time, especially my sleep, so maybe it's working? I had really bad depression for a while too, and that's mostly cleared up. It's not cheap but it's an FDA approved therapy for a number of conditions.
It sends microcurrent (literally - millionths of an amp) through the two halves of the vagus nerve via the left tragus to the left wrist, and from the right concha to the belly. Each half takes about fifteen minutes.
When I started using it I had some weird moments where my heart would skip a beat, but I ramped up the treatment durations over a couple weeks and now the treatments are uneventful.
Supposedly it's much safer than TENS units which deal with currents that can overload your nervous system.
BTW, look into Silexan lavender oil too ("Calm Aid"). Supposedly better therapeutic outcomes than prescription antidepressants and anxiolytics, especially at 160mg doses.
