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Though even in your quote, it’s clearly working in a more nuanced way than suppressing introversion. Being better able to understand others’ emotional state, and reduced anxiety, seem to be obvious improvements

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Grimblewald 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I guess the issue is we are medicating a social issue, which is not ideal.

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netbioserror 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And yet, what are the trade-offs? Do we know what they're losing in return? I think it's fair to correlate (over)socialization with a lack of technical curiosity and drive. Those are valuable traits in both utilitarian and metaphysical senses. Do they retain such traits if they have them?

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h0l0cube 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I suppose if we stop people from stimming, maybe we have less drummers? Less risk taking CEOs? It’s really hard to know. But if there’s some trait that causes some people misery but they offer this ‘utility’ for greater society, can we really lament people managing these traits by artificial means? (And in this case, the effect is temporary)

> it's fair to correlate (over)socialization with a lack of technical curiosity and drive

That is certainly an opinion.

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jayski 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How do you get to that correlation? Anecdotal or is there some evidence?

	▲	netbioserror 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Anecdotal.