[ExI] infinity

[William Flynn Wallace]

OK, social adjustment and math - but I am not going to do a review of the
literature. I have  a question for everyone with two minutes to spare:  do
you have any reason to believe that your memory is exceptional?  Or
surprisingly average?  (like my own)??  bill w

bill w

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 6:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
>
>
> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 4:26 PM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Cc:* Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] infinity
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 1:42 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Pong.  Only.  Game console only played pong.  I predate personal computers.
>
> >…Have you been living under a rock since they were invented?   Even an
> old Roku had Angry Birds space...
>
>
>
> Eh, computer gaming probably woulda been a bigger part of my life had it
> come along about 10 years sooner.  Turns out my favorite game on the
> computer has been playing chess against other humans online.
>
>
>
>
>
> >>… That sorta thing.  Pisses ya off.  Because in this case they are
> right.  They remind you of Sheldon from Big Bang.
>
>
>
>
>
> >…Never could take that show…
>
>
>
> I only saw a few of them, on planes going back and forth across the
> country.  As Hollywood goes, it does a better than average take on a
> socially maladjusted math genius.  We hafta face the fact that social
> maladjustment is very common among the very advanced in science and math.
> The reason for this has not been fully explained, but perhaps Billw has
> some plausible theories.  My favorite is that some known causes of social
> maladjustment such as Aspergers is often associated with greater focus.  Or
> it could be that people with greater focus tend to become socially
> maladjusted because they go into a deep think while the others party and
> dance.  Then of course one like that tends to attract others like that,
> because we understand.
>
>
>
> spike
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20210826/2c2ba179/attachment.htm>