Wired on Autism in the Valley 861
digaman writes: "The December issue of Wired magazine contains an article of mine on what appears to be an upsurge in autism among the children of programmers and engineers in Silicon Valley: "The Geek Syndrome." A complicated issue, explored in depth. I hear the California Department of Developmental Services is launching a research project to investigate the questions raised in the article."
uh oh (Score:4, Funny)
Geeks with children, impossible! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:ADD (Score:1, Funny)
The poetic solution... (Score:1, Funny)
With fluffy soft looks and a flower at the waist,
With golden hair flying, like mist round the moon
And lips that seem sighing, "You must kiss me soon,"
Not huffy, or stuffy, not tiny or tall,
But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.
Geeks don't get laid. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm in that boat (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a quantisation error. You might want to think about upping the sample rate.
Re:I'm in that boat (Score:2, Funny)
Based on that test, probably 80% of the
Yes, I'd say the test is quite accurate
New species on the rise: (Score:1, Funny)
With subspecies:
And remember: please don't feed the blue-eyed programmer-cat.
Re:I'm in that boat (Score:4, Funny)
Wilber is a philosopher and so has to deal with academic language.
I think you didn't understand my criticism of your post.
The mapping of your concept space onto mine pre-supposes my own post-contextual usage. In a very pre-evolutionary way, the multi-dimensional concept space in which our ideas move (what Glieber and Friesch define as the "Geshaltmorph") is defined by our own context, therefore your criticism of my post is invalid. Wiber's writing are, indeed, within the limitations of our own understanding of post-Gesthaltmorph contextualizations , "bollocks".
Re:The reason for autism (Score:3, Funny)
Because they don't spend all day on slashdot.
Re:this is evolution of mankind (Score:5, Funny)
Talk about misdiagnosis...
Re:It's actually a contributing factor, I think. (Score:4, Funny)
That's an interesting point. I can imagine that in the worst case, the geeks will evolve to look something like chimpanzees, the jocks will become more like gorillas, and the politicians will begin to resemble orangutans.
Re:New species on the rise: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's actually a contributing factor, I think. (Score:2, Funny)
Therefore, models should date geeks. Sadly, none of them are here to read this comment.
The dangers of sociotism (Score:5, Funny)
Sociotistic people often band together in tightly-knit heirarchies, where social status is determined by subtle shifts in "body language" rather than skill or experience. Sociotistic children often play cruel tricks on their healthier playmates for no logical reason. They prefer brutal team-oriented games like football over healthy, abstract tests of individual merit, such as video games.
Victims of sociotism of all ages tend to be less intelligent than healthy people. They are capable of learning skills that have an obvious and immediate short-term benifit, but profoundly lack the social independance and intellectual curiosity needed to explore new frontiers of knowledge. As a result, sociotistic people rarely succeed in feilds such as science or engineering, and when they do succeed in these feilds it is usually only in a managerial capacity.
If you know anyone that fits the description of a sociotistic person, please pat them on the head in a sympathetic but condecending manner and tell them to get professional help for their obvious deficiencies. With any luck, we will some day discover powerful mind-altering drugs that will force these people to be as healthy and well-adjusted as we are.