Oooh! High agreement on something this downvoted is curiosity catnip!
(Currently I see −18 for position, and +7 for agreement… I haven’t touched either button, but I’ll definitely upvote a response to my questions here <3)
I thought “this is nice” would be a common human reaction, but apparently I’m miscalibrated?
The “agreement votes” suggest that even people who think you’re being mean kinda grudgingly admit that you’re saying something accurate...
...but like… What?
Don’t “normal people” also like in a basic public space (that isn’t a museum or a dance club or a bedroom or… etc) that are clean bright soft simple naturalistic spaces?
I’m honestly curious if some things that I think of as kinda sorta universally joyful are actually “mere” parochial preference?
One possibility that I’m considering is that by “neuro-divergent” you just mean “smart and thoughtful and hopeful and optimistic, and willing to try things according to naive first principles just in case they turn out as great as it seems like they’d turn out, and generally having an uncrushed spirit”?
It does seem to me like maybe normal people are extremely sad and broken a lot of times, and maybe that’s all you’re pointing to somehow, but that’s a self-congratulatory theory, and also it isn’t very predictive of any details, and so my default mental move is to doubt it and test it.
Hence: can you explain what you meant by that? :-)
Neurotypicals have weaker preferences regarding textures and other sensory inputs. By and large, they would not write, read, or expect others to be interested in a blow-by-blow of asthetics.
Also, at a meta level, the very act of writing down specifics about a thing is not neurotypical. Contrast this post with the equivalent presentation in a mainstream magazine. The same content would be covered via pictures, feeling words, and generalities, with specific products listed in a footnote or caption, if at all. Or consider what your neurotypical friend’s Facebook post about a renovation/new house etc. Emphasize: typically it’s the people, as in “we just bought a house. I love the wide open floor plan, and the big windows looking out over the yard make me so happy” in contrast to “we find that the residents are happier and more productive with 1000W of light instead of the typical 200.”
So, hashtag “tell me the Rationalist community is neurodivergent without telling me they are neuro-divergent”?
Oooh! High agreement on something this downvoted is curiosity catnip!
(Currently I see −18 for position, and +7 for agreement… I haven’t touched either button, but I’ll definitely upvote a response to my questions here <3)
I thought “this is nice” would be a common human reaction, but apparently I’m miscalibrated?
The “agreement votes” suggest that even people who think you’re being mean kinda grudgingly admit that you’re saying something accurate...
...but like… What?
Don’t “normal people” also like in a basic public space (that isn’t a museum or a dance club or a bedroom or… etc) that are clean bright soft simple naturalistic spaces?
I’m honestly curious if some things that I think of as kinda sorta universally joyful are actually “mere” parochial preference?
One possibility that I’m considering is that by “neuro-divergent” you just mean “smart and thoughtful and hopeful and optimistic, and willing to try things according to naive first principles just in case they turn out as great as it seems like they’d turn out, and generally having an uncrushed spirit”?
It does seem to me like maybe normal people are extremely sad and broken a lot of times, and maybe that’s all you’re pointing to somehow, but that’s a self-congratulatory theory, and also it isn’t very predictive of any details, and so my default mental move is to doubt it and test it.
Hence: can you explain what you meant by that? :-)
Neurotypicals have weaker preferences regarding textures and other sensory inputs. By and large, they would not write, read, or expect others to be interested in a blow-by-blow of asthetics. Also, at a meta level, the very act of writing down specifics about a thing is not neurotypical. Contrast this post with the equivalent presentation in a mainstream magazine. The same content would be covered via pictures, feeling words, and generalities, with specific products listed in a footnote or caption, if at all. Or consider what your neurotypical friend’s Facebook post about a renovation/new house etc. Emphasize: typically it’s the people, as in “we just bought a house. I love the wide open floor plan, and the big windows looking out over the yard make me so happy” in contrast to “we find that the residents are happier and more productive with 1000W of light instead of the typical 200.”
#don’texplainthejoke