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the face blindness thing was one of the most striking things to me about the rationalists, it’s way more common than i would’ve guessed in that crowd. someone told me once if you learn to read too early the part of your brain that does face recognition gets coopted into reading?
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Very High IQ people favorite self-diagnoses, ranked: 0. Autist 1. ADHD 2. Seasonal affective disorder 3. Face blindness
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I'm pretty face blind for people I don't know well, regularly have ppl at parties reference conversation we had a few hours earlier and I'm like who are you?? I have a sense I could train myself out of it by consciously trying to remember their face more