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RE: Delayed Dystopia
I'm amazed by how accurately these prediction markets actually can be—way more accurate than polls. It's crazy because Joe Rogan just brought up this very same topic on his last couple of podcasts. He said there was a multi-generational study in California that concluded in the last few decades we've gone from a 1-in-10,000 autism diagnoses to 1-in-12 people today. One in every twelve people now are considered to be on the autism spectrum. Although alarming, he and some of his guests wondered if autism could actually be a superpower, giving people the ability to stay hyper-focused on things that interest them. This, combined with so many human infertility issues, as well as changes to our physical form lead them to believe that merging with AI/Robots might be our next destined evolutionary step. It could be written into our DNA already and we're just making it happen through our own technological innovation. That's super weird to think about very unsettling but they made a convincing argument for it.
Well, since it is a spectrum, aren't we all autistic? ;D
I'd guess I'm somewhere on that spectrum. : ) If I'm concentrating on something the world melts away.
70 years ago, when I was in elementary school, nobody was autistic. If you couldn't read, you were held back a year. If you couldn't socialize, you were weird. Now we have a diagnosis for everything. That's not necessarily bad, because if we define an issue we can better address it. That doesn't mean the issue belongs in the DSM.
That's definitely an interesting theory! I can't say as though I have heard that before. Part of me wonders if they are just better able to identify it now. I am sure my wife would have some interesting thoughts on that hypothesis!
Joe wondered that as well, if the increase in diagnoses wasn't somehow connected to all the fraud going on. I'd be interested to learn her thoughts on it!