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>But the problem of course is that Stallman has a room temperature social IQ. I hate to phrase it so bluntly, because it’s like staring into my future when I’m

>But the problem of course is that Stallman has a room temperature social IQ. I hate to phrase it so bluntly, because it’s like staring into my future when I’m 60. He's autistic. Apologised afterwards. etc Which one would expect a crowd championing (neuro)diversity would keep in mind. The author of the original accusations for the petition latched onto every bit of tone-deafness they could tho. Saying he was transphobic since at some point where pronouns were only just becoming a thing in public discourse he discussed about the use of a default since something else seemed linguistically better to him. This because....well he was/is around a decent amount of trans people given he's very much not transphobic. He had again apologised publically about that one but it didn't matter.

sillysaurusx 4y ago
Autism as a defense works up to a point. I’m certainly sympathetic, being a narcoleptic. But I also plan my life carefully around those constraints. It’s why I only missed exactly one meeting due to oversleeping during my time at Groq. Stallman appears to be aware of his condition, but takes no steps to actively counter his tendencies. This works well for building emacs. Perhaps it even works well for leading an open source software movement. But it’s mystifying that he seemed to be caught completely off guard by the entirely-predictable backlash. To put it another way, is autism a reasonable defense for believing that obtaining CSAM harms no one? It’s unrelated to the question. Even if we’re extremely generous and set aside how CSAM was obtained, him being autistic wouldn’t be more than a footnote. Being neurodivergent is hard. That’s why it’s called divergent. It’s why I don’t try to get a job in sales, despite being pretty good at it. Because that would require me to be a reliable 9am to 5pm person; I wasn’t born that way.
bombolo 4y ago
yeah he got called transphobic because he says "they" for singular is ambiguous and a new word instead would be clearer.

sillysaurusx 4y ago

Autism as a defense works up to a point. I’m certainly sympathetic, being a narcoleptic. But I also plan my life carefully around those constraints. It’s why I only missed exactly one meeting due to oversleeping during my time at Groq. Stallman appears to be aware of his condition, but takes no steps to actively counter his tendencies. This works well for building emacs. Perhaps it even works well for leading an open source software movement. But it’s mystifying that he seemed to be caught completely off guard by the entirely-predictable backlash. To put it another way, is autism a reasonable defense for believing that obtaining CSAM harms no one? It’s unrelated to the question. Even if we’re extremely generous and set aside how CSAM was obtained, him being autistic wouldn’t be more than a footnote. Being neurodivergent is hard. That’s why it’s called divergent. It’s why I don’t try to get a job in sales, despite being pretty good at it. Because that would require me to be a reliable 9am to 5pm person; I wasn’t born that way.

bombolo 4y ago

yeah he got called transphobic because he says "they" for singular is ambiguous and a new word instead would be clearer.