That seems like an inefficient use of space if the ceiling is anything more than six feet high. If they’re ten foot ceilings, then the shelves are spaced about 20 inches apart, which is rather larger than typical books. No wonder there are multiple layers on some shelves and books overflowing onto other surfaces.
Fred Clark (www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/) recently drew attention to John Hagee, a Texas preacher who’s been preaching about the imminent Rapture since the 1980s. His church recently spent millions of dollars to start a K-12 school. Which really isn’t consistent behavior if you really believe the Rapture is imminent.
I suspect (without evidence) that what a lot of the NT people get from ADHD stimulants is not so much focus but “better alertness than you get from caffeine”. And being more alert by itself would probably help an NT person focus especially when they’re burning the candle at both ends.
As opposed to needing the extra dopamine in the frontal lobe to kick the executive function into gear to concentrate at all.
To really test this you’d probably have to get some NT people and some ADHD people, ensure that they’re well-rested, fed with adequate nutrition, exercised a bit, and have them do an incredibly fucking boring task both medicated and unmedicated. (Perhaps take in a 90 minute lecture and do a quiz about the medieval open-field farming system.)
I might be anhedonic because I’ve been using methylphenidate for ADHD since 1992, but I’ve always been somewhat anhedonic. To paraphrase Maria Bamford “Some people really love life. I’ve always been on the fence.” The question “what do you do for fun” has always been a bit difficult for me.
Of course it’s also hard to find pleasure in many things if you can’t stay with them long enough for the pleasure to really develop.
My general assumption is that ADHD is both underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed but I’m generally chill about it and not a gatekeeper. But the recent shortages and delays have me a little more on edge about it.
The thing about AI designing and building robots is that making physical things is vastly more expensive than pooping out six-fingered portrait jpegs. All that trial-and-error learning would not come cheap. Even if the AI were controlling CNC machining centers.
There’s no guarantee that the AI would have access to enough parts and materials to be able to be trained to a level of sufficient competence.