i'm scared that me being very critical causes there to be a chilling effect of people being reluctant to speak freely about random ideas around me. if you ever feel this please tell me!
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The chill is very real; I ran an experiment on delaying criticality till a few interactions in with people and have never looked back. It's unreasonably effective.
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Not rigorous experiment. Only accuracy-vetted for personal heuristics. Roughly: Group1:"suppress responses to the conversational counterpart during & several moments after they stop speaking." Group2:"act maximally enthusiastic, no delay" compare number of minutes convo continues
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