Thursday, October 10, 2024

Turing Completeness vs. Learning Disability

 I've said before humans are turing complete and shouldn't be unable to learn anything.

 I believe I was wrong to say this. Now I believe learning disabilities are so common that they're taken for granted. It's normal. 

 Dyslexia, dyscalculia, autism, asperger's are obvious examples. The IQ may be fine, but there's cognitive blockages. I think there are dozens or hundreds of other, nonobvious examples, which explains normative behaviour.

 There are several individuals who never say anything batshit or retarded. E.g. Hans Herman Hoppe. It's hard to tell how smart they are, because they all sound the same. Despite not being socially connected, they have no substantial disagreements. No reason to raise their voices at each other. Could peacefully hold thanksgiving dinner together, without any speech filters.
 You can posit there's some maximum IQ, and Hoppe has it. This is probably batshit.
 More likely, Hoppe lacks any learning disabilities. Unlike essentially all of the rest of humanity, he's capable of thinking anything through.

 It so rare that I would cheerfully agree they're simply not human. The human condition includes several entries from a set of learning disabilities, and if you don't share them, you have transcended Caino Hypocriens.

 

 In some cases the learning disability may be ideological. They were exposed to such a terrible psychohazard as a child that they're forever incapable of thinking clearly near the deformed meme. I would expect most of the disabilities to be structural biological solecisms. Knots in the brain - can't massage those out. The skull's in the way, what with the brain dying as a response to massage.

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