> If we don't occasionally inject entropy into the process, I think we find plenty of local maxima, but miss a lot of potentially higher potential maxima. Some

> If we don't occasionally inject entropy into the process, I think we find plenty of local maxima, but miss a lot of potentially higher potential maxima. Someone sent me this video a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuFSnhKG9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuFSnhKG9I The video uses an analogy that stuck with me, and the basic idea is that if autistics are good at deeply building out a single idea, schizophrenics / schizotypals find it very easy to adopt entirely new ideas. This could also be one of the mechanisms behind schizophrenic delusions, which are difficult to fight with logic, because they're not based on logical combinations of existing ideas, they stand on their own. I think it's extremely fascinating. I don't think there's any doubt that he was suffering from his illness, but I don't think he suffered only due to his illness. I think general society doesn't yet understand mental illness and neurodivergence in general well enough to know how to approach it. I don't know if I'll live long enough to see real studies catch up to even just what I currently know and feel intuitively, and that makes me a little sad. To me, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, DID, BPD and so on, all feel critically misunderstood by medical literature.