Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• over 1 year ago

Why do we have personality disorders? Why did evolution stumble upon them? And why isn't the case that we all share the same personality disorders - i.e. why is there such a robust humanity-wide distribution of _diverse_ personality tendencies? I reckon that this is caused by a "rock paper scissors" dynamic. Some personality disorders are actually optimal responses to living in a group where a _different_ personality disorder is prevalent. Paranoids understand and predict antisocials. STPD understands BPD. OCD can see through the mask of NPD. Etc. It's like a Pokemon chart! Here, Claude 3 Opus gives us a summary table: