Watching the Joe Rogan / Elon Musk podcast made me feel kinda sorry for Elon. He is very visibly not neurotypical; ie divergent in a way I’m not sure the mainstream world knows how to deal with
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Replying to @visakanv
There’s a narrative that Silicon Valley rewards neuro atypical people in general. Atypical minds (on the spectrum, hypomanic) mean you might feel less social pressure to disengage w/ weird ideas. So, most Silicon Valley leaders might be “off” and illegible to the general public.
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I don’t actually think it’s true or any more “atypical” than any other outlier pursuits, but I was introduced to this thesis by the (now) classic:http://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-18-notes …
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Thanks yeah I think I heard Thiel argue this on Conversations with Tyler.
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I’ve noticed that Singaporean and Indian political families also seem disproportionately neuro-atypical but I have no idea what to do with that information
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Maybe idiosyncrasy is just an impediment you can use as a costly signal when you have power but is otherwise an important thing to suppress
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