[an0malous]

Hierarchical structures are so odd, you would think the higher levels optimize for intelligence and empathy but in practice it optimizes for sociopathy and maybe public speaking skills

[treetalker]

Gervais Principle

[arethuza]

The problem with reading that is that it is, I find, almost impossible to stop classifying people into sociopath, clueless or losers....

[seg_lol]

80% of the time, we all fit into one or more of those categories don't we? The problem is we move between those categories constantly.

[WorldMaker]

Which is where that article series eventually goes, getting fractal on the categories and their inter-relationships and how people move between the categories constantly. That's also about where the article series starts to maybe get too self-serious and hard to read, though.

[Nicook]

hello fellow sociopath