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There are certain benefits to limited novel neurological deviation, but strong deviations generally accrue too much dead weight, and involve too many non-optimized characteristics, which haven't been properly fitness selected.
There's a degree to which adaptation must be incorporated gradually, so that it can be refined, and made functional with the whole of a society. And if such adaptation proves irreconcilable with any extant society, then natural purifying selection will generally remove it, possibly by extinguishing the entire population, if that becomes unavoidable.
That doesn't explain why 99% of the people on this server are turbo-autists though
Kinda, yeah. lol
Autism isn’t bad unless you’re interacting with that person.
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<:soyboy:421747339167006724>
Fucking idiot
“Hur dur she just came back from this diseased city and was sick lol! Doctor meanie!”
<:soyboy:421747339167006724>
Autism causes a social disadvantage that kinda forces folks to expose themselves to other social outcasts(dissenters)
It's like a computer with a shitty WiFi adapter not being able to download the corrupt software that is the new operating system
As far as I can tell, autistics tend to be some of the fiercest advocates, and opponents, of woke culture.
Likely due to how they process social cues differently than normal.
I think it's basically a lot down to specific priority. Whether the autistic in question is more interested in adhering to the perceived rules of their society, or clinging to observational heuristics about the natural world.
For example, take Chris Chan, who was *both* a hard line traditional conservative, *AND* later transformed into a radial SJW.
At the outset, though abnormal, he was processing social cues from his main source of authority, his father, because he understood this made his life within his environment easier. But as his father grew frail and eventually passed away, his shifted into the new major paradigm of authority, the woke SJW culture of mainstream and social media.
He never did, and still doesn't really understand why those rules exist, he just knows that they're provided by those who seem to be most capable, and willing, to enforce them.
I think most centrists, if not hendered by their emotional impulses, would gravitate towards the logical endgame of the ideas they hold
But autists (as far as I can see) seem to be less capable of cognitive dissonance, which is a useful social instrument
Chris Chan is an autistic person who is more or less out of his depth in understanding the rules of the natural world, or the dynamics of the social world. What he understands is that he can gain social approval from a specific seemingly authoritative tribe, for behaving in a certain way.
I think most centrists, if not hendered by their emotional impulses, would gravitate towards the logical endgame of the ideas they hold, which leads to extreme positions
But autists (as far as I can see) seem to be less capable of cognitive dissonance, which is a useful social instrument
This also explains why a shift in a small subset of your premises can have an immediate effect on your entire outlook
His attempts to adhere to these norms, and integrate them into his prior existing scheme, are oafish, and hamfisted, because he doesn't actually understand either of them. He's just following what gets him the good goy points, within his limits to comprehend a pattern.
This is actually one of the reasons why memes are so incredibly useful
Because they can communicate and normalize culture even to people who barely comprehend it.
To demarcate a political, tribal, or philosophical territory.
Establish a sense of kinship, and belonging, or alienation.
@Miniature Menace
Yeah
It's also possible that they are simply doing the exact opposite of what I am saying
And blindly trying to climb a social heirarchy they can't fully comprehend the beginning or end of
Memes are not expressions of the underlying logical basis of an ideology
But rather an expression of emotional reactions and social norms that the viewer is expected to adhere to
They're rhetorical instruments that allow us to market/normalize more complex ideas that would never fit in a single frame
Yeah, normies blindly climb, but it's not because they're incapable of understanding, but because they don't care to invest the energy. It's not important to them, as long as their basic needs and desires are met. They can understand, and follow, social cues. Go along to get along. Autists on the other hand, have to pay attention instead to other forms of approval and consequences, because much of the subtlety of moment to moment approval is not as easy for them to understand, or to care about.
Basically
Normies
1. Care about social cues
2. Understand social cues
3. Don't invest themselves in understanding things they don't care about, which is most politics and the natural world, most of the time
4. Focus on low to moderate hierarchy needs, safety, food, intimacy, breeding
Autists
1. Don't care about social cues, but react to consequences
2. Care about social cues where it effects these consequences
3. Invest considerable time in novel passions, which many may find boring, or outright bizarre
4. Have difficulty sustaining investment in low and moderate heirarchy needs, safety, food, intimacy, breeding, and generally operate towards these needs with considerable difficulty, and will often sacrifice or defer these needs for the sake of their novel passions
I am always fascinated by how people don't feel the urge to trace back the system of incentives and causal relationships that lead to the undesirable consequences they're dealing with in the present.
They don't try to integrate the data available to them into an overarching theory with predictive ability
