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Nerdism is a commitment mechanism similar to religion in the sense that nerdism signals inability to defect and hence safety while religion signals disbelief in the existence of Prisoner's Dilemma scenarios and hence safety.

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I want to propose an alternative theory – that nerds, instead of having «”Autism light,” i.e., high intelligence and low social skills», have “Schizoid Personality Disorder – high intelligence and low social desire“.

This could explain more the things – a person with low social desire (even he could prefer work alone) usually don’t have problems in working with others, if he likes the work; he will be cold and unaffectionate, but at a functional level the relation with co-workers will be OK; but they will have a problem in making alliances, etc, because these kind of things requires some emotional bonding.

[correcting typo]Then this explain the pattern.

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