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Wired on Autism in the Valley
digaman writes: "The December issue of Wired magazine contains an article of mine on what appears to be an upsurge in autism among the children of programmers and engineers in Silicon Valley: "The Geek Syndrome." A complicated issue, explored in depth. I hear the California Department of Developmental Services is launching a research project to investigate the questions raised in the article."
hmm.. I wonder why that is... (as I read the article with my laptop in my lap)
True geeks do not have sex!
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I never really got into ADD, although I did play the "Basic Set" of Dungeons & Dragons.
I like them fluffy - I know it's bad taste -
With fluffy soft looks and a flower at the waist,
With golden hair flying, like mist round the moon
And lips that seem sighing, "You must kiss me soon,"
Not huffy, or stuffy, not tiny or tall,
But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.
Thank God most geeks don't get laid very often:-)
-- André Dahlqvist
"Nothing drastic, but he would tend to slur a couple words in the middle of long sentances"
Sounds like a quantisation error. You might want to think about upping the sample rate.
From the article: "I think all tech people are slightly autistic"
/. population could be considered autistic.
;-)
Based on that test, probably 80% of the
Yes, I'd say the test is quite accurate
Don't quote me on this.
With subspecies:
And remember: please don't feed the blue-eyed programmer-cat.
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"I do not play at being God -- I AM GOD!
LOL! Need I tell you what we call people like you in England?
Wilber is a philosopher and so has to deal with academic language.
I think you didn't understand my criticism of your post.
The mapping of your concept space onto mine pre-supposes my own post-contextual usage. In a very pre-evolutionary way, the multi-dimensional concept space in which our ideas move (what Glieber and Friesch define as the "Geshaltmorph") is defined by our own context, therefore your criticism of my post is invalid. Wiber's writing are, indeed, within the limitations of our own understanding of post-Gesthaltmorph contextualizations , "bollocks".
"why the hell is it, by the way, that stupid people breed much faster than us smart ones?"
Because they don't spend all day on slashdot.
Talk about misdiagnosis...
That's an interesting point. I can imagine that in the worst case, the geeks will evolve to look something like chimpanzees, the jocks will become more like gorillas, and the politicians will begin to resemble orangutans.
Therefore, models should date geeks. Sadly, none of them are here to read this comment.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
Sociotism is a mental disorder characterised by an undue obsession with social interaction and eye contact, which often interferes with healthy interests such as computer programming and science fiction.
Sociotistic people often band together in tightly-knit heirarchies, where social status is determined by subtle shifts in "body language" rather than skill or experience. Sociotistic children often play cruel tricks on their healthier playmates for no logical reason. They prefer brutal team-oriented games like football over healthy, abstract tests of individual merit, such as video games.
Victims of sociotism of all ages tend to be less intelligent than healthy people. They are capable of learning skills that have an obvious and immediate short-term benifit, but profoundly lack the social independance and intellectual curiosity needed to explore new frontiers of knowledge. As a result, sociotistic people rarely succeed in feilds such as science or engineering, and when they do succeed in these feilds it is usually only in a managerial capacity.
If you know anyone that fits the description of a sociotistic person, please pat them on the head in a sympathetic but condecending manner and tell them to get professional help for their obvious deficiencies. With any luck, we will some day discover powerful mind-altering drugs that will force these people to be as healthy and well-adjusted as we are.