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2015-08-25 at 10:56 PM UTCHey Mal Mal, since i know you're pretty intelligent and you hate interacting with people and such why don't you get into programming? No need to deal with people and if the computer makes a mistake it's because you told it to. As you probably know, autists are over repressented in the field anyway. You could treat it as a game, hell you could even make a game if you wanted to. Also, if you get good you could work from home as a freelancer or something.
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2015-08-26 at 12:44 AM UTCHate it. Despite being an extreme systemizer (100% thinking, 0% agreeableness, 100% introversion giving realistic answers) I hate the dry hard sciences. I'm extremely atypical in the fact that, despite misinterpretations of my behavior and superficial appearances, I have a complete understanding of humans and their behavior, even having very high accuracy at "reading" people, their expressions, body language, predicting and understanding their thoughts/viewpoints/point of view/perceptions, motivations, and behavior in general. Reason being: Humans and human societies, the human brain, are the most complex systems of all.
I fully understand the immense value of these fields, and enjoy the fruits of their labor, utilizing them, I just don't want to do it myself and would rather leave it to others. You likely feel the same about many things if you think about it, for example, construction is very important, just look around you, as well as growing food, other menial tasks, but do you actually want to do them? It's joyless for me. Tedious, repetitive, a complete lack of excitement. -
2015-08-26 at 1 AM UTC
Hate it. Despite being an extreme systemizer (100% thinking, 0% agreeableness, 100% introversion giving realistic answers) I hate the dry hard sciences. I'm extremely atypical in the fact that, despite misinterpretations of my behavior and superficial appearances, I have a complete understanding of humans and their behavior, even having very high accuracy at "reading" people, their expressions, body language, predicting and understanding their thoughts/viewpoints/point of view/perceptions, motivations, and behavior in general. Reason being: Humans and human societies, the human brain, are the most complex systems of all.
I fully understand the immense value of these fields, and enjoy the fruits of their labor, utilizing them, I just don't want to do it myself and would rather leave it to others. You likely feel the same about many things if you think about it, for example, construction is very important, just look around you, as well as growing food, other menial tasks, but do you actually want to do them? It's joyless for me. Tedious, repetitive, a complete lack of excitement.
I see, personally i just recently got into programming but what makes it fun for me is the fact that it's challenging, also you can do some pretty cool stuff if you're any good. Anyway, if you could snap your fingers and get a job of your choosing just like that. What would it be? What field would interest you the most, out of curiosity? -
2015-08-26 at 3:23 AM UTCI've honestly never heard of a job that would interest me, other than crime. Nothing makes me feel happy or fulfilled, there's nothing I feel passionate about.
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2015-08-26 at 3:50 AM UTC
I have a complete understanding of humans and their behavior, even having very high accuracy at "reading" people, their expressions, body language, predicting and understanding their thoughts/viewpoints/point of view/perceptions, motivations, and behavior in general. Reason being: Humans and human societies, the human brain, are the most complex systems of all.
lmayonaise
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2015-08-26 at 5:01 AM UTCFulfillment from a skill based activity is predicated on investment. Artists, scientists, craftsmen, no one is born with subject mastery and no one enjoys difficult tasks they can't do at first but the process of skill acquisition and recasting previous experience in the light of new knowledge/competency gives a deep sense of intellectual fulfillment that you simply can't get without putting the effort in up front.
Epicurus (my favorite ancient philosopher, coined the term "atom", was an early atheist, and in many ways was the forefather of utilitarianism) taxonomized pleasure in the kinetic and static varieties, the former are those pleasures that are reduced by satiation, like eating, it becomes less enjoyable the fuller you get. By contrast static pleasures are those that becomes more intense as you partake in them. I think many people have never experienced that, activities that become more and more rewarding, seemingly without bound, the more you do them. But that's the quality of most skill based activities, master painters enjoy painting more than amateurs, the same goes for authors, scientists, programmers, pretty much anything without a clear skill ceiling. When I'm having a really bad day or week I come home and I pull out a hobby project because in the absence of meaning or progress in the day to day at least I can work on improving in an area I care about. It's kinda like that feeling of being rewarded while playing an RPG except without the nagging sensation that you're wasting your life on something pointless.
I'm not saying become a programmer, but I think finding a skill based hobby, and specifically an open ended one, is something everyone should do. -
2015-08-26 at 9:20 AM UTC
Fulfillment from a skill based activity is predicated on investment. Artists, scientists, craftsmen, no one is born with subject mastery and no one enjoys difficult tasks they can't do at first but the process of skill acquisition and recasting previous experience in the light of new knowledge/competency gives a deep sense of intellectual fulfillment that you simply can't get without putting the effort in up front.
Epicurus (my favorite ancient philosopher, coined the term "atom", was an early atheist, and in many ways was the forefather of utilitarianism) taxonomized pleasure in the kinetic and static varieties, the former are those pleasures that are reduced by satiation, like eating, it becomes less enjoyable the fuller you get. By contrast static pleasures are those that becomes more intense as you partake in them. I think many people have never experienced that, activities that become more and more rewarding, seemingly without bound, the more you do them. But that's the quality of most skill based activities, master painters enjoy painting more than amateurs, the same goes for authors, scientists, programmers, pretty much anything without a clear skill ceiling. When I'm having a really bad day or week I come home and I pull out a hobby project because in the absence of meaning or progress in the day to day at least I can work on improving in an area I care about. It's kinda like that feeling of being rewarded while playing an RPG except without the nagging sensation that you're wasting your life on something pointless.
I'm not saying become a programmer, but I think finding a skill based hobby, and specifically an open ended one, is something everyone should do.
Well put. -
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