Some aspies are awesome others are asshats — like anyone else. Am somewhat envious of the Vitalik types but at the same time I wouldn’t trade my “neurotypical” brain for an autistic one.
I am a social animal. I like getting along with people. I like being able to feel how others feel by hearing their tone of voice or looking at their face.
> . Am somewhat envious of the Vitalik types but at the same time I wouldn’t trade my “neurotypical” brain for an autistic one.
I'm genuinely curious, you'd want to be a person who developed perhaps one of the most needlessly complex and obtuse programing languages riddled with bugs and have an even more nebulous idea of what it's built for but assured everyone it was to revolutionize the World via something VC scammers would eventually call Web3 after failing to build the first 'global computer'?
To date, Vitalik represents exactly what HN seems to think about crypto; lots of promises with no real use-cases which all end up as vapourware and exit scams.
I've been in this since he was in an Unsystem member squatting with Amir, and to be honest the only way I can justify his trajectory was that he was always a scammer and was bidding his time, and just decided to take his scam and build an aura of mystique around his... condition as a marketing ploy to justify the horrible thing he has built that's led to countless hacks. Hacks that I personally hope are being used to fund more interesting and viable things, because there is no way you can explain going from building tools like dark wallet/market to crypto kitties and NFTs and have it make any sense other than sheer grift.
With that said, I've worked with outreach programs to reintegrate people on the severely incapacitated end of the autistic spectrum: and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. To live a life with no autonomy and have no real capacity to communicate or to articulate your thoughts is perhaps the worst type of hell I can think of as our very species 'Homo Sapien' translates to Wise Man and often refereed to as a thinking monkey and they have been robbed of their very Humanity.
They may be assholes but gosh aren't they productive.
It reminds me of dwarves from Norse mythology. Short guys in their little workrooms underground banging away at projects. Grumpy. Making miraculous stuff. The shoe fits.
Very poetic way of putting it and I agree these are people we certainly need! Wouldn’t be writing this message if it weren’t for autism. But to some extent they are beasts of burden.
Musk talks about his brain as if it’s possessed by demons sending him a million thoughts a minute. Not fun.
I think Google/YouTube is already doing this. For example when you Google search "how to reset a Macbook", the top result is a video that jumps to a particular highlighted section that answers the question.
This isn't the best example of this feature, but it sure has saved me a lot of time in other queries that I can't recall at the moment.
Exactly. Google does this through the video transcripts, and finds the query location in the video for you. The problem is that this isn't part of the video player itself (or YouTube search). It's also very basic, being just a transcript search - I want more data mined insights to be available.
I wonder when "2005" for crypto will be. Like if we compare them by metrics like maturity of technology, developer attention, VC money, etc, how do "web2" and "web3" compare?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I wasn't even alive during the dotcom bubble but every account I've heard of it sounds similar to the cryptosphere. Insane valuations. People blindly jumping on the bandwagon. Money blindly being thrown around left, right, and centre towards anything 'web3'. Plagued with tremendous amounts of arrogance, greed, and hubris. People buying Lamborghinis and the like. Classic gold rush mania.
It is not the same (I was alive during the dotcom bubble).
In contrast to bitcoin/etc, it was always clear how broadly useful the internet would be.
Even while companies with inflated valuations like eBay were being battered, a broad amount of the mainstream population was using the sites every day and loving them.
It does not feel the same with cryptocoins, where owning an NFT Ape remains some peculiar niche thing and typical people have no relationship with cryptocoins at all.
Generalizations are not generally valid. You are putting whole ecosystem into the same bucket. Yes, there are a lot of shitcoins.. But there is also Bitcoin.
I got into a bit of a rabbit hole after reading this WSJ article, which lead me to find this related article about the "ADHD industrial complex"[0]. It perfectly sums up the pattern been noticing the past couple years of ADHD becoming way too sensationalized on social media. For example this TikTok with 9 million views [1] that portrays universal things like not enjoying waiting in lines, or the texture of certain foods, as ADHD behaviour.
The comments sections on these posts you'll be sure to see something along the lines of "omg I'm convinced I have ADHD now". I have always heard the narrative that ADHD is extremely over-diagnosed. Surely its sensationalization on social media plays a large role in that.
Telehealth startups like Cerebral are just adding salt to the wound. I don't live in the US, so I was shocked to see how these companies advertise on social media [3].
I can't help but imagine a user flow along the lines of:
a). Scrolling through your feed seeing some memes about ADHD. Including this one [4] that conveniently lists out all the symptoms, and this one [5] that tells you how to speak during your consultation so that you don't get flagged for drug-seeking behaviour.
b). Scrolling a bit further and see an ad for ADHD consulation
c). Stimulant prescription after 30 minutes of regurgitating memes you saw on social media
Was just about to comment along these lines. If I read about this a few years ago I would be shocked. Now after seeing so many flubs in the crypto space, my reaction is just 'meh'
I am a social animal. I like getting along with people. I like being able to feel how others feel by hearing their tone of voice or looking at their face.
If I wanna concentrate I consume caffeine.