Would the world be better off if it was run by autistics?

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Ok?

How does this prove anything about autistic politicians? An autistic politician is going to be the kind of person who will be able to elicit enough other autistics to select them for power. That will involve selecting for many of the same traits that are selected for in NT politicians. So.... I am not sure how this will change things. The nerdiest autistics are definitely going to know that applications of game-theory along with a utilitarian model may justify certain political abuses(lies, etc) to maintain power to enact social changes considered to result in good outcomes, so even if Aspies are hyper-logical deities(which they aren't), we should expect them to lie because that's what the game theory of the situation would tell them to do.

Even further, nothing said actually suggests that autistics are going to tend to be saner leaders. Once again, just look at this forum: Do you think the people on here are more likely to create good compromises? Do you think the people on here are going to be ideologically reasonable when they need to be? Is this thread even BASED upon good social scientific reasoning in the first place, or is it mostly just the self-favoring opinions of autistics without a REALLY thoughtful glance at what is needed to make society work??

I mean, let's be blunt:
1) It's not a black and white question. There is a spectrum of autistic conditions all varying in their traits.
2) To what extent will autistics be able to or willing to engage in the processes needed for a working politic? (Is there any empirical analysis on this?)
3) To what extent are existing problems actually the constraints already given to a working politic by the limits of our knowledge and the game-theory of the situation? So, politicians act as they do because they're working with constraints. Governments act as they do due to their constraints. If the nature of the actors is only a part of the problem, then changing the actors will leave a lot of the problem unsolved.
4) Could some of these issues actually hinder the success of an AS rulership? So, if NTs are a mess of half-baked heuristics, and aspies happen to missing a few of these half-baked heuristics, it doesn't mean aspies are fully baked. One possible problem is that the set of NT heuristics could be ecologically rational, so even though there are many irrationalities, the balance ends up creating a successfully working organism and society. But... aspies don't necessarily have to have an ecologically rational set of tendencies(our lower successes in certain areas could be evidence we don't have this), so.... we could actually be worse off. NT careerism and self-interest could be what keeps them away from outright ideological extremism, but aspies, lacking these traits, may actually be honest politicians and try to drive the world into the ground in pursuit of the abstractions that ordinary politicians may avoid due to the pragmatism of careerism.
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NT politicians and business leaders are already driving the world into the ground through their pragmatist careerism.

If the earth is going to be driven into the ground, it may as well be in the pursuit of a just cause.

Got to say im equally surprised and dissapointed that the 'no's' are winning.

Why are there so many self hating autistics?

If there were a gold medal for conclusion leaping, you would be the winner. Could it not be that some autistics, particularly aspies recognize their own limitations. That is not self hatred, that is good sense and modesty.

ruveyn

I think those aspies are selling themselves short. NTs are as a group, unfocussed, ignorant, selfish and centred around social banality. They hold us back.

I think those aspies are selling themselves short. NTs are as a group, unfocussed, ignorant, selfish and centred around social banality. They hold us back.

I think those aspies are selling themselves short. NTs are as a group, unfocussed, ignorant, selfish and centred around social banality. They hold us back.

You make daily use of products and devices invented by NTs. By and large you are fed, housed, clothed and cured of your ills by NTs. NTs have been the most populous segment of mankind. Our best and our worst, for the most part are NTs.
Do you think Thomas Edison and Nikols Tesla held you back? Do you think the likes of Richard Feynman held you back. It was said of Richard Feynman, he is another Dirac, but this time human.

ruveyn

ruveyn

As for NT geniuses, they're in the minority. Aspies and autistics have a positively disproportionate number of skilled hands as a group.

Edison had trouble early in school,one teacher described him as "addled."I would not doubt he was on the spectrum.Dos'nt he still hold the record for most patents?