A shape rotator is someone with high visuospatial ability. Contrasts with with wordcel, i.e. someone with high verbal ability.
It's a term based on puzzles used in some IQ tests that require the test-taker to mentally rotate or unfold a shape to see which shape it matches up with.
We let the shape rotator in our family figure out how to fit all the luggage into the trunk.
deep learning vs crypto is a clear divide of rotators vs wordcels. the former offends theorycel aesthetic sensibilities but empirically works to produce absurd miracles. the latter is an insane series of nerdtraps and sky high abstraction ladders yet mostly scams