I sort of assumed that even people who struggle with social cues would understand their instrumental value, at least on an intellectual level. But there’s definitely a typical mind component in that thinking because I know nothing about the social lives of most LW-ers or the average LW-er and how much they interact with humans in meatspace and how they feel about it.
So I thought more about this poll and realized I would need one of those “strongly agree—strongly disagree” matrices to get any good results. Which is an even heftier undertaking.
I sort of assumed that even people who struggle with social cues would understand their instrumental value, at least on an intellectual level. But there’s definitely a typical mind component in that thinking because I know nothing about the social lives of most LW-ers or the average LW-er and how much they interact with humans in meatspace and how they feel about it.
So I thought more about this poll and realized I would need one of those “strongly agree—strongly disagree” matrices to get any good results. Which is an even heftier undertaking.