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Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by copperx »

ryanklee wrote: post #38
btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

I'm hesitant to make any assumptions about your decision to not medicate, but if it has anything to do with addictive properties, you should look into guanfacine. I have very severe ADHD and was unable to use the common medications for the reason listed. This last year I stumbled upon guanfacine, which is usually a blood pressure reduction med, but is prescribed off-label as an ADHD med. It has no noticeable effects…

As someone in the spectrum with Demand Avoidance, guanfacine has been a godsend. It's cheap, not controlled, and for me, it works better than any stimulant in regulating my attention.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by claviola »

btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

> If I have positive motivations to do X, distractions are easy to set aside. If motivations are negative, I will be unable to resist creating distractions. And a straightjacket that prevents that leads to insanity.

How do you deal with chores?

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by LesZedCB »

dwb wrote: post #20

That looks great but there is exactly zero chance I would run this on a computer I didn't own, in my apartment. Call me paranoid, but that's just how I feel right now.

with llama.cpp it's easier than ever too. i have used these models even just to vent about stuff or to rubber duck. it's pretty helpful, but i'm right there with you, local or nothing.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by btilly »

mrcncpt wrote: post #22
btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

I've never heard this take before but it makes a lot of sense. Do you mind clarifying the kind of emotional tools you refer to?

Mostly a lot of mind-body stuff to develop self-awareness, and adjusting my life, routines, and priorities to fit the needs that I find are not being met.

I can ramble on for ages about it. But it is also a highly personal journey - what works for me won't for the next person and vice versa. However KNOWING that it is important is huge.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by tivert »

btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

> My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have.

That's the hallmark of applying technology for technology's sake, which is a lot of what engineers and tech entrepreneurs do nowadays. Especially for technologies that are getting a lot of hype. AI is blockchain all over again, a lot of "let me try to shoehorn this sexy tech where it doesn't really belong."

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by klausa »

lacrimacida wrote: post #29
thewataccount wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience with ADHD - calenders are excruciatingly hard to use consistently. Either it "takes too much time" or I completely forget I was trying to use a calender. Having a tool that can automatically add items from infodumps/todolists would be useful. I don't udnerstand the chrome extension part though.

Keep an notepad file open; only when you remeber add stuff to it. At some point it will become a hardened habit and honestly much better than some AI crutch. There are better uses for AI in my opinion..

> At some point it will become a hardened habit and honestly much better than some AI crutch.

One of the symptoms of ADHD is borderline impossibility of forming habits, in the way that neurotypical people think about them.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by notjoshjames »

The first thing I look for when I see a new app in the cognitive space is the privacy policy. Here it is in its entirety (https://www.comigo.ai/privacy):

* Information We Collect: We collect information you provide when you register for our Service, including your Google account data. This data includes, but is not limited to, your name and email address.

* Use of Information: We use this information to personalize, understand, and improve our Service, communicate with you, respond to your requests, and enhance the overall user experience.

* Sharing of Information: Comigo will not share your personal information with third parties.

* Security: We prioritize protecting your data and have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure its safety. However, no method of transmission or storage is entirely secure, thus we cannot guarantee absolute security.

* Changes to this Privacy Policy: We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

I've been working on my own similar, local-first solution for several years, because I simply cannot introduce a significant external dependency to my mental stack. Behavioral data is some of the most sensitive and dangerous data to leak.

There's irony with these types of apps: the more utility I can gain from them, the more risk I have should they introduce dark patterns, become defunct, or even make well-intended changes that break my personal workflows.

The scenario outlined on Comigo's home page begins with the user prompt "Hey Comigo my board meeting is in 4 hours and I wasn't able to work on my presentation slides..." - a context-aware agent would certainly have pre-empted this well before the same day, right?

Sorry if this seems overly critical. I have a lot of passion for this space, and there's a huge need, but there's something like 20,000+ "mental health" apps out there, and nearly every single one I've encountered has big red flags.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by MisterTea »

btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

Do you have any comorbidities with ADHD? My issue is moderate ADHD with severe anxiety. Wonderful combo.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by btilly »

claviola wrote: post #42
btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

> If I have positive motivations to do X, distractions are easy to set aside. If motivations are negative, I will be unable to resist creating distractions. And a straightjacket that prevents that leads to insanity. How do you deal with chores?

First, a direct positive emotion - I'm aware of how much my doing routine chores helps my wife and family. And it is a trade, I'd much rather do the chores than the routine paperwork that my wife does instead!

Second, I use doing routine chores as meditation and thinking time. It does lead to doing the chore less efficiently - I might break off loading the dishwasher to pace, think, and jot down a note. But it is also personally productive time for me.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by notjoshjames »

burnte wrote: post #16
kojiromike wrote: post #5

While I empathize that companies have to choose a release pathway that limits cost, I will not be a customer of a product whose release pathway is just a Chrome plugin. From where I'm sitting, that's less cost limiting and more customer limiting.

I'm in the middle of some AI startup telling me my clinicians don't need to do their own notes anymore if I pay $1000 a month for a Chrome plugin that records the session and runs it through some unnamed, unknown, undetailed LLM they run in Google Cloud, and they're acting like I'm stupid for having issues with it.

A project of mine is evaluating Rev AI for HIPAA-compliant transcription for case notes.

https://www.rev.com/blog/rev-spotlight/announcing-rev-ai-hip...

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