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Elon is autistic as fuck.

Mikael Akerfeldt is the Robert Plant of Death Metal:

Which is what, playing more videogames and continuing being a NEET? This "separate from the world" thinking is exactly the kind of trap I'm warning about. You're not separate from the world just because you never dared to expose yourself to a slightly more uncomfortable challenge than waking up and turning on your computer. You will very well end up as someone who thinks they are separate from the world if you are not challenged. Me going to university was a challenge imposed on me by my mother, but I learned that it was more for me than I had ever realized. Through challenge you might find strengths you never realized you had. And it will lead to finding value you did not know existed. Take this as someone who has spent more than 10000 hours on one single videogame. Likewise, of all the people I know in real life who I consider ND (leaning autistic), they are all well-educated, well-functioning members of society. If anything, the more normal ones or those more like me (I don't consider myself in any statistically significant way autistic, if anything, I'm on the opposite extreme) are the ones struggling. Some even died of overdoses. There is a fine line between enabling authenticity and enabling immature dysfunction. What that line is might be something like "try this out and see if you like it", "work on this for a while and see what happens". You don't have to be thrown to the flames of reality with threats of abandonment or isolation from those who support you, but that might also work.

Who are these schizos lol. The dude was skeptical whether or not he would go on a podcast. He has gone on a podcast before. 🤢

I could definitely see a difference between say a pure THC vape and a wild cannabis flower. It's the difference between the strongest vodka you can find and a light beer (and beer contains various phytochemicals outside alcohol). My main gripe with THC nowadays is its lipophilicity, so it really stays in your body (to the point of being noticeable) for up to a week or so with infrequent use, which sucks ass. Back in my weed days, I remember getting this strain that a friend of mine said was a hybrid indica strain or something. I liked it so much.

Pretty schiz ngl.

My guy, he has already been on many podcasts. Pretty schiz ngl.

Since Dr. K seems to talk about both neurodivergence and Puer Aeternus, he should probably talk about the possible tension between them. Because it's easy to use dysfunctionalizing yourself as an excuse to not grow up.

It's not ultimately real. Oneness is what is ultimately real. Sounds, colors, feelings are ultimately as a real as the ego. The ego is "real" in the sense that it is distorting your perception. Perception is "real" in the sense that it is distorting reality. Sounds, colors, feelings are "real" in the sense that they distort Oneness.

Doesn't that taste like absolute battery acid?

I just looked up 5 mangoes and 10 bananas on Cronometer. Both give a lot of copper but little zinc, which alone could explain this (forgive my reductionist brain). I one time bought a copper supplement and I hated it because it made me feel like an emotionally unstable woman lol. Mango is actually surprisingly nutritious. All it really needs is B12 and it's like the egg of fruits. But nothing beats kiwi, but it's like scarily nutritious and sort of unbalanced if you were to eat it and nothing else (insane amounts of vitamin C and K).

You are allowed to post, not just spam new threads all the time about the exact same topic (neurodiversity). The point of a thread is to gather similar thoughts under it so that the sub-forums can be used as a catalogue for where different kinds of thoughts are found. One thread for neurodiversity is probably enough. Perhaps if there was a sub-forum for neurodiversity, you could spam threads, but we don't have that yet.

If you were to do a personal profile on me (based on what you currently know about me), what makes you think I'm neurodivergent?

Do not some of the chemicals in the sticks and potentially in herbs in general freak you out? There are should we say many "herbal ways" to die.

The thing about Poker is it's one setting which you can practice and specialize in. But social games include many different settings where specialization might not be possible and all you can rely on is fast-and-frugal heuristics. It is right, because affective attuning is a central means by which you come to access soneone's mind. The thing you're doing is you're expecting a fully comprehensive measure of ToM. You won't ever get that in a test. Science is almost always "by proxy", especially in psychology. You create a measure and then it is used to point to an idea or variable. Very rarely do you get an essentially 100% 1-to-1 relationship between the measure and the variable, and it's basically not a thing when dealing with complex concepts like ToM.

Jan is a teacher who can talk about love (bhakti), integrate it with I-ness and emptiness (jhana), and surrendering (neo-advaita), in the same 3 minutes, without getting stuck in either, combining it into a cohesive framework. Stage Yellow enlightened person 😎 Sorry, I like Jan very much :,)

I'm sorry to interrupt this serious exchange with WHAT the fuck is this?: I was searching up a Jan Esmann video on love and I got this abomination 😭

Look up at the stars and imagine that you're looking at something below you, or that you're hanging by your feet rather than standing on the ground, or that you're looking at something infront of you rather than above you. It creates the sense that you are floating in space and it creates a 3D effect between the stars. I have memories of this as a child (or it was a literal visionary experience), and it felt like I was travelling through space. Space is a great representation of God, because you can see the infinity in the blackness and expansiveness of the void.

@Joshe The test seems like a good way to indicate whether somebody has autism. Whether or not it captures all aspects of theory of mind is a different story. Different aspects of ToM is interesting. Autistics may be good at stacking up past experiences (concrete things) and using them to predict responses (a spectrumy friend of mine has essentially photographic memory and probably does the same). But the high-paced, highly contextual and subtle momentary changes in states, that may require indeed affective attunement and inference based on emotional expressions, that's what autistic people struggle with. And if you're meeting for example a new person, that might be all you have. Like if you had met a friend of mine from high school, what would you have to go by to understand their mind? What if they don't talk?

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I have experience with autistics giving me a thorough in-depth intellectual account of how people work and how their own mind works, which is theoretically insightful and empirically plausible, but which in practice doesn't apply to themselves at all. The theory doesn't meet the reality as claimed. It might or might not be the case for you, and we can't really test that except through interactions. But that's a concept I believe also applies to autistics; not just a lack of TOM with respect to others but with respect to themselves. Because just like concrete rules and inferences based on those might be inefficient for understand other people's minds, it might be inefficient for understanding your own. But that's essentially gaslighting so take it with a grain of salt.

Or you can use different labels not constructed in a frame of "mental disorder". There is a reason why it's "ND" and not "mentally ill".

This I again see as a limited version of ND that is confined to a certain pathologic-psychological (psychiatric) frame, essentially Western ideas of mental disorders (DSM-5, ICD-11). There are more psychological concepts to use, from East and West, and religious, spiritual tendencies, personality, temperaments; anything under the sun for describing a person. And that is a part of the problem I feel with the framework in that it plays on an underlying theme and explicit concepts made to describe dysfunction, which creates a certain frame and focus in the mind of the person indentifying with ND, pushing their behavior in a certain direction of "snow-flaking" and "dysfunctionalizing" themselves and perhaps promoting dysfunctional coping strategies like isolation, avoidance, lack of challenge and growth mindset, lack of resilience-building, responsibility-adopting. Even if the ND concept itself is an attempt to not treat the conditions as a dysfunction but merely a difference in function, the cultural environment it is situated in, and the terminology it uses, is still one of pathological psychology. And because some ND people (autistics particularly) can get very fixated about any particular frame they're working with, this effect can unfortunately be excacerbated for them. Like when you use the word "passion oriented people" and then put "executive dysfunction" in parentheses afterwards, I feel existentially offended. Why are you labelling such an immense strength as a bad thing? My MSc advisor (professor with Harvard background) is probably the most idealistic and passion-oriented person I've met, and he is also one of the most socially, occupationally and spiritually established people I've met. That you place any label like that next to a source of divine intelligence, that's straight up a sin, a slight against God. And I believe Dr. K himself has said something along the lines of if you align yourself with your passion, that is where executive function is found. That is when you can act, dictate, control, shape your behavior along what you're aiming at, because the goal is that valueable and it is in line with what and who you are. Executive dysfunction comes when you're out of alignment, when you're in a state of severe stress and conflict, with yourself. Once you act within your own imperative, you are by definition functional.

Like for example?

What will be the next in AI and machine-human interactions before AGI and before Neuralinks is generalized AI agents. They will capture data from your daily life, like a smartwatch does for your physiological data, but for your everyday interactions and your online footprint (as well as physiological data). These will be fed into a system where the AI analyzes the data and gives structured insights and feedback on how you can improve things you are working on, your personality type/traits, your movement patterns, your sleeping habits, your eating habits. Everything you can imagine that can be recorded, your AI will use it to enhance your life. Currently, the problem with AI moving to AGI is of course the problem of agency, autonomous behavior, perception, generally relevance realization (how to solve ill-defined problems, how to pick out relevant information from an essentially infinite sea of information, how to move through an environment unaccompanied by human nannying or hand-holding). And of course the problem with Neuralinks is we're not anywhere near the sufficient scale for the machine-human interactions to bypass machine-human interfaces like screens, smartphones, personal computers. So for now, we will utilize the generalized data processor that is the smartphone, and use AI's current capabilities through that. And as AI is not autonomous, it has to have structures and softwares built in place to do the data collection. Big companies like Meta will eventually take care of this, but in the meantime, startups might have a market for a while (I've toyed with the idea and have the potential means to start it, but I'm split between other paths). This is essentially about introducing a second brain to your life, which is platinum content for your personal development. The amount of checking mechanisms you can have (for personal epistemology, bias, self-deception), the routine-refinement, it's all made more dense and powerful by not just AI's computational ability but the opponent processing (two minds, and the relationship between two minds, are better than one).