[thoughtpeddler]

I agree that a key underlying component of ND thinking is greater abstraction (i.e. "systematizing"), which is the thrust of better pairing with LLMs (but concede also that NTs may also exhibit the same).

My speculation about NDs was not meant to imply superiority or elitism -- more an interesting thought experiment that considers a wider aperture of history. You're right that it doesn't hold up against the fact that tracing evolutionary adaptation requires substantial evidence of survival difficulties and selective pressures.

If anything, I'm more fascinated by the parallels between how NDs such as myself navigate the world (e.g. masking, etc), and how LLMs are fine-tuned to interact with humans too (e.g. the "assistant/user" conversational model) It's like scaling down the "Are we all just stochastic parrots?" question to my own experience of often feeling like a "prediction engine" of others' minds.