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by leonidasv 1252 days ago
I asked for a playlist of "how ADHD sounded like" and I can't be more impressed.

I don't have ADHD myself but live with people that do and I think the playlist really captured some of the observed symptoms of the disorder in a musical way.

But what I really found impressive is: searching for "ADHD playlists" in Spotify yields a lot of playlists with lo-fi music for deep focus, not the fast-paced, disorganized, hyperactive songs I got in the generated playlist. That means, the model is capable of discerning what the word "ADHD" means in a profound way, it's not just regurgitating songs that resemble "Spotify playlists with ADHD in their title". Very, very impressive.

For the curious: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3MSryXJ6F1n34JSIPe1iMA?si=...

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It's missing the "I feel like crap because I got yelled at for the 1000th time by the same person for doing the same thing wrong" mixed with the anxiety of "I know from experience I can't avoid that happening again, but how I can I avoid that happening again?".

The themes I can detect in the playlist itself are "I don't know quite what this is, but that itself is interesting, so my brain is just going to surf on that for a while", "nothing's going on, so I started daydreaming and my brain is in that comfortable relaxed happy place", and "oh oh oh, Yes yes yes! Mode"