Autism is a “disorder” only because the world is neurotypical
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Autism is a “disorder” only because the world is neurotypical
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Re: Autism is a “disorder” only because the world is neurotypical
#2>But we can conclude, and with absolute confidence: Elon Musk is not more intelligent than I am, or you. We’re different.
Yeah okay.
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#3>But we can conclude, and with absolute confidence: Elon Musk is not more intelligent than I am, or you. We’re different. Yeah okay.
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is much more intelligent than I am. I don't know why there's such a taboo over saying some people are more intelligent than others. It's not a moral judgment or a be-all-and-end-all of a person's value.
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#4> Confront them with the current problems that the human species currently faces: the ecological, political, and social crisis, and they will not only solve these challenges but will create heaven here on earth, and very quickly.
I don’t think that is a great idea. One thing I have noticed with autistic people is the ability to really concentrate on a problem with full attention. However, the downside is that they can be so focused on that one problem, they end up ignoring other factors.
The danger is that they single mindedly try to solve the problem and try to create “heaven on earth” and inadvertently turn it into hell on earth.
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#5>But we can conclude, and with absolute confidence: Elon Musk is not more intelligent than I am, or you. We’re different. Yeah okay.
Anyone who concludes anything fuzzier than formal algebra with "absolute confidence" is probably not pushing the end of the bell curve anyway.
Re: Autism is a “disorder” only because the world is neurotypical
#6I think this is a Hollywood view of autism - its not like that in real life, sure there's some people on the spectrum that are genius, but there are a lot that aren't and have more significant life challenges.
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#7Reading the article I had a sinking feeling that people haven't been honest with this writer (particularly their interpretation for why they are not as rich as Elon Musk seems incomplete). It's like when kids on a bad soccer team play against kids on a good soccer team and get their asses kicked to the moon and back... and then they still all go and get ice cream. Sure, that avoids hurting anyone's feelings, but it also removes valuable signal (eg: whenever I play soccer other kids get ice cream and I get none, so screw this and let's find something else that's a better fit for me, like music, science, art, whatever).
Re: Autism is a “disorder” only because the world is neurotypical
#8>But we can conclude, and with absolute confidence: Elon Musk is not more intelligent than I am, or you. We’re different. Yeah okay.
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is much more intelligent than I am. I don't know why there's such a taboo over saying some people are more intelligent than others. It's not a moral judgment or a be-all-and-end-all of a person's value.
> It's not a moral judgment or a be-all-and-end-all of a person's value.
But it is, even though it actually means nothing at all. Let me try and explain.
Our society prides itself on being both rational and egalitarian at the same time. Its most basic ideological paradigm basically says: "everyone is equal". Of course, that is a meaningless statement - people themselves are not quantities to be measured and compared; "everyone is equal" is just a shorthand for "everyone is just as much a human being as everyone else, regardless of the physical characteristics of their body, and deserves to be treated with equal dignity, because every person has a human mind."
Now imagine a trait, "intelligence", which basically says "this person has more mind than that person". This is in contradiction with the premise of equality; in the rationalist paradigm, this is more or less equivalent to saying "this person is inherently superior than that person". So either differences in intelligence do not exist and intelligence is a meaningless signifier (perhaps a performative role ascribed by particular situations)... or rational egalitarianism is in contradiction with itself (and therefore factually wrong by the rules of its own logic).
Either option is enough of a bummer that a normal person would be driven to ignore the matter entirely. Hence, the taboo.
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#9>But we can conclude, and with absolute confidence: Elon Musk is not more intelligent than I am, or you. We’re different. Yeah okay.
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is much more intelligent than I am. I don't know why there's such a taboo over saying some people are more intelligent than others. It's not a moral judgment or a be-all-and-end-all of a person's value.
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#10I think this is a Hollywood view of autism - its not like that in real life, sure there's some people on the spectrum that are genius, but there are a lot that aren't and have more significant life challenges.
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