Diesnt that hypothesis run counter to observed health benefits and lower obesity in say japan and countries that could broadly be described as engaging with the mediteranean diet?
Both with lots of linoleic acid / PUFA's
Regarsing your example , Vacalav Smil has a lot of interesting books about the energy economy or resources as a whole (natural).
Exposing yourself to his ideas might open up some correlates or advise a heuristic you hadn't thought of in that context. "The energy economy of rationalist based thought process" or something like that.
Are you in any sort of psychotherapy for it specifically?
That seems like exactly something that could be worked on with empirically supported OCD specific methods.
Cognitive behavioral therapy for what appears to be fairly severe underlying anxiety?
Rebt in particular might apply as you seem to overwhelm yourself with the thought of the thing more than the thing.
Undiagnosed ADD comes to mind as "existential crisis doing chores" comes up a lot to describe it when I talk to adults.
Unified mindfulness would also be a suggestion, you can use the opportunity of the hated chores to wire up a more peaceful sensory experience and relationship to your body and mind.
We also have a "someone elses problem" milieu. So the ER's cant turn away the homeless but they onpy need to "stabilize" them.
Same with you or me really. So things that could be completely resolved with an inpatient stay dont end up with an admission because "cost". Nothing is definitively "solved" in a timely manner because of managed care.
So thongs are left to stew and get worse (in your case a proper holistic evaluation initially might jave involved exploring your diet vs years and multiple visits to all sorts of docs).
It ends up "costing" more but no one with decision power sees the cost because its spread over time and to different hospitals or communities etc
So the first person to see someone has no incentive to spend the resources to dig deep and then to actually solve the problem.
Its just biology so it isn't applicable to AI. "Neoteny" is you want to dig deeper , to have a baby born with above 50% adult brain size would require another three months in the womb and the birthing of such a cranium would be pretty deadly to the mother.
Humans also have a few notable "pruning" episodes through childhood which correlate and are hypothesized to be involved with both autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia , pruning that also has no logical bearing on how an LLM / ASI might develop.
I had similar hpusing related "i'm the smartest guy in the room" belief some years back.
I was looking at broad amounts people were retiring on (not enough) in the US and then extrapolated that these older folks would have to sell or get second mortgages just to live.
And since the baby boomers are retiring , I thought (with no more data or numbers to back me) that we would see signifigant downward pressure on housing prices.
But of course as long as this doesn't happen in large piles , in large numbers of zipcodes and sort of in a short amount of time , then its not an issue.
Over decades in large parts of the world facing demographic challenges yeh. Not here.
To broaden things a bit discussionwise.
The leap from 1950's transistors and semi conductors to what...early 90's?
I'm not familiar enough with material science or any of that to make an intelligent call but does it seem like a logical progression or on inspection does it actually raise questions about recovered UFO technology?
At the very least I feel like experts in those fields either have or could point out that something seems fishy or they could convincgly dismiss the assertion.
continue to fail at basic reasoning.
But , a huge huge portion of human labor doesnt require basic reasoning. Its rote enough to use flowcharts , I don't need my calculator to "understand" math , I need it to give me the correct answer.
And for the "hallucinating" behavior you can just have it learn not do to that by rote. Even if you still need 10% of a certain "discipline" (job) to double check that the AI isn't making things up you've still increased productivity insanely.
And what does that profit and freed up capital do other than chase more profit and invest in things that draw down all the conditionals vastly?
5% increased productivity here , 3% over here , it all starts to multiply.
"A" graded evidence on examine for PCOS symptoms and "fertility". "B" for anxiety (slight improvement for anxiety, moderate for "panic symptoms") .
Now, I have a lot of TBI's in my past and originally came across this for "OCD symptoms" , I wont bore you with details but it would definitely be considered sub clinical and not meeting DSM criteria for an actual OCD diagnosis. I came across inositol I think in 2013 or 14, either the nootropics or MTHFR sub reddits.
"C" rating on examine but that's because they only have one human study linked. Up to 12 grams a day oral in adults usually only results in GI upset although a thorough long term and dose dependant study has yet to be done so we can't definitively say its "safe and harmless". My own regime is 2 grams in the morning and 2 in the afternoon for months at a time (been doing this for probably a decade) with a few weeks off every now and then when I forget to order more. I do twice yearly labs and so far my CBC and CMP are unremarkable, 38 male, testosterone levels where they need to be.
Honestly I can't say anything I get from it isn't just placebo, even this far in. I'm not keeping "weird sort of OCD / anxiety" symptom journals when I don't have it and I randomly arrives at the current 4 grams a day (I get 1 gram tablets so two is just easy to remember and dispense into my supplement case)