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There's a discussion to be had about the correlation between a preoccupation with interacting with the world through computing and "attachment styles" that are not considered to be healthy. (avoidant etc.)

Witch-hunts are a dumb way to pursue this.

If a project (say a cryptographic software project) is full of avoidant/dismissive types, a lot of mainstream people will be naturally so far from engaging with it that they don't notice whether it succeeds or fails.

Our understanding of psychology is so limited that our idea of what's desirable is really at the level of hunches and rumors, sometimes supported by obscure studies. (Obscure mostly because of the size of the configuration space.)

Etc.




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