Well-known, famous people with ME/CFS (public thread)

ryanc97 said:
AI bigshot, Deepmind. I talked to him on X about ME/CFS. He gave me his email. I will pitch him Fluge Mella (my fav obviously).
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Sorry, I don't understand. Also, do you maybe know how long was Ian ill?

Daniel has "Creator of Applied Determinism" in his profile info and a link to the website which says:
Applied Determinism is a cognitive practice that teaches practitioners to utilize an understanding of determinism to dismiss the emotions they experience in relation to behavioral agents previously considered to possess free will. Everything you need to get started is here. “The Behavioral Judgment Model of Agential Emotion” introduces and describes those emotions that you will be able to dismiss while the overview deck lays out the practice of Applied Determinism and the logic behind it.
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I'm not convinced.

A friend (or perhaps an ex friend) who works for DeepMind suggested I try brain retraining because it helped their colleague. I'm not claiming it was this guy, just saying that you can't judge someone's common sense by their CV.
 
Felis Catus said:
Applied Determinism is a cognitive practice that teaches practitioners to utilize an understanding of determinism to dismiss the emotions they experience in relation to behavioral agents previously considered to possess free will …
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This sounds like an unholy mix of cognitive behavioural therapy and current AI hype keywords. I am/was Silicon Valley adjacent and all anyone talks about now is agent this agential that…

My full support for trying to get donations to Dara though.
 
ryanc97 said:
Well he replied, sadly he believes in brain retraining. So there's that. He did mention this guy called Pieter Abbeel, also in AI. I asked if I could get his contcact.
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Thanks for trying, a shame. Survivorship bias can be strong even in the intellectually smart. I often wonder if it’s more prevalent in the successful as they attribute the success directly to their own efforts and discount luck. Good or bad.
 
hotblack said:
Survivorship bias can be strong even in the intellectually smart. I often wonder if it’s more prevalent in the successful as they attribute the success directly to their own efforts and discount luck
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Agreed. The tech community in Silicon Valley which is almost entirely male has fallen prey to all sorts of crazy ideas in recent years (look up TESCREAL). They are very pro individualism, and self determination, yet they also behave in a cultlike way. They are a closed off culture that idolizes other male techies and AI, and actively exclude women. I’m sure they as a group believe they can engineer their way out of any physical calamity.
 
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