You can have lazy eye without Williams Syndrome (it is very common and WS is very rare), and I would be surprised by WS: he’s missing some of the more striking WS features like goblin teeth or a wide face or sunken nose aside from the wide lower lip, and since it’s an intellectual disability, that would be a rather surprising thing for people who ‘have spent many years around the rationality community’ (eg WP notes that out of a sample of >300, the highest reported raw IQ was 112). Plus, people with WS are strange in many ways, so I’d expect people who knew him to describe that instead of just generally saying “very prone to being sucked in by charismatic and manipulative Dark Triad types”—people can be fatally gullible without having Williams Syndrome, you know.
As for the other photos: no one looks good in a mugshot, not even models.
Ok, not Williams Syndrome. There’s more going on in his face than the strabismus, though, and I am unsurprised by the further comments on his physical and mental character from Edmund Nelson.
Nelson’s description mostly just reads ‘autism spectrum’ to me. (High prior probability unlike WS, poor theory of mind, literalness, gullibility, small/weak/poor health, all pretty ordinary, nor is facial oddness odd for many genetic/developmental disorders including all of the autisms.) Williams Syndrome is very different, to the extent that people sometimes try to describe it as ‘the opposite of autism’, which illustrates the hazards of trying to make diagnoses online based on cursory information...
You can have lazy eye without Williams Syndrome (it is very common and WS is very rare), and I would be surprised by WS: he’s missing some of the more striking WS features like goblin teeth or a wide face or sunken nose aside from the wide lower lip, and since it’s an intellectual disability, that would be a rather surprising thing for people who ‘have spent many years around the rationality community’ (eg WP notes that out of a sample of >300, the highest reported raw IQ was 112). Plus, people with WS are strange in many ways, so I’d expect people who knew him to describe that instead of just generally saying “very prone to being sucked in by charismatic and manipulative Dark Triad types”—people can be fatally gullible without having Williams Syndrome, you know.
As for the other photos: no one looks good in a mugshot, not even models.
Daniel was definitely strange in many socially awkward ways
Ok, not Williams Syndrome. There’s more going on in his face than the strabismus, though, and I am unsurprised by the further comments on his physical and mental character from Edmund Nelson.
Nelson’s description mostly just reads ‘autism spectrum’ to me. (High prior probability unlike WS, poor theory of mind, literalness, gullibility, small/weak/poor health, all pretty ordinary, nor is facial oddness odd for many genetic/developmental disorders including all of the autisms.) Williams Syndrome is very different, to the extent that people sometimes try to describe it as ‘the opposite of autism’, which illustrates the hazards of trying to make diagnoses online based on cursory information...