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>>9239019
It all comes down to mechanistic cognition versus mentalistic cognition. It comes on a spectrum with lower and higher amounts of it.
Harris is slightly autistic indeed, while Peterson is soft schizotypy desu senpai.

>>9082232
>He literally writes on his blog about how being autistic is superior and the way of the future.
(For fun)
Taleb would disagree, see antifragile. He is against these kind of engineering solutions on complex systems. So do I. If you read about autism, for example by Simon Baron-Cohen and about the Imprinted brain theory it is often said how people with autism are good at figuring objects out, i.e. the mechanic.

There was also a scientific article that claimed people with autism are more logical. Doesn't stop them from making other mistakes.

If you read about the traits associated with autism in the book about the imprinted brain theory (see picture), which I think need some work because I am skeptical of them, they fit nicely into the complains by some writers such as Stuart Kauffman and Ian McGilchrist (which I think both fail in their attempts agains the kind of culture they rally against).

If anything a society needs to have neurodiversity and that is what superior. If you ask me designer babies and so forth are legitimate existional threats because they lead first to top-down intervention (which Taleb doesn't like) and second potentially towards monopolic humans (similar in traits, maybe genes).

The latter is my concern, I believe similarly as Taleb that organic selection is better as a top down artificial selection. I fear in the future there is a possiblity of very similar humans if the dreams of transhumanism ever come to fruit.

From ecology you'll learn that genetically similar species are much less resilient against shocks.

Anyway end of my rant and hope we can continue to discuss this.