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A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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Einstein seemed to have absolutely no problems with his social life. Newton on the other hand lived and died alone, possibly a virgin.

If anything, Newton was very well connected with other people and had extensive collaborations with them. He was very much social. The fact he may have died a virgin says nothing about his social capabilities.

Maybe he was gay in a time when being gay was a death sentence ? Which would be really sad.

Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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What if it is more like Vegeta's super saiyan 2. A false super saiyan 2 form. Just like the real SS2 maintains both power and agility the real Übermensch will attain new levels of IQ while maintaining if not advancing a strong EQ. https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_Second_Grade

>Things not even an LLM would write.

Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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The spectrum doesn’t work that way, it’s more like a grab bag of traits than a “low to high” thing. High functioning is often just a way to dismiss the needs for certain autistic individuals who can mask very well.

I'd say otherwise. My wife has a student in her riding academy who is a severely autistic adult who is not independent and gets intensive support from her mom and aides that she hires who turn over rapidly because of the difficulty of the job. She has several seizures on some days. One beautiful day when they were tacking up the horse she thought it was a great day to take a walk (it was!) and took off down the drive…

You know what they say, “if you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person.”

Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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What if it is more like Vegeta's super saiyan 2. A false super saiyan 2 form. Just like the real SS2 maintains both power and agility the real Übermensch will attain new levels of IQ while maintaining if not advancing a strong EQ. https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_Second_Grade

>Things not even an LLM would write.

That's how you know LLM's aren't AGI.

Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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I've wondered if it's something akin to an LLM with the wrong temperature or a GPU that's overclocked. If human intelligence is right at the evolutionary bleeding edge you'd expect some proportion of outcomes like that just due to randomness of various kinds.

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Einstein seemed to have absolutely no problems with his social life. Newton on the other hand lived and died alone, possibly a virgin.

Feynman was also very charismatic

Ditto for John von Neumann

Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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Einstein seemed to have absolutely no problems with his social life. Newton on the other hand lived and died alone, possibly a virgin.

In Western Europe in the 1600s, being a virgin didn't make you a loser in most people's eyes like it does now. Newton had long friendships with other leading intellectual figures (Edmund Halley, John Locke, mathematician David Gregory).

Never being married did however.

Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans

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There's an ambiguity in the title, reflected in some comments below. It can be understood either as the claim that "in a particular human being, to be intelligent as measured by IQ means that you are more likely to be autistic", suggesting for example a trade-off between social and general intelligence; or the claim that "the evolution of the human brain and so human intelligence as such, which characterizes both tho…

Thank you for the clarification. Can't read the paper.

Who was it that was quoted often a decade ago that described the intellectual variance difference between the sexes?

The research concluded that women are smarter (just kidding) that men have much greater variance while women are generally closer to the mean and one another in abilities.

Since differences between the sexes exist, I would also expect differences among the sexes to cluster for evolutionarily relevant reasons.

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