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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 30 Dec 2018
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      Brian Skinner Retweeted David Chapman

      It has not been my experience that smarter people are socially weirder. Among MIT physicists, for example, there are some socially weird/awkward people, but there are also some very socially adept people. I don't see much correlation at all.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1079405531607883776 …

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      David Chapman @Meaningness
      “Be smart enough. But not too smart that you are weird.” The “prior intuitions” here are more like “a blatantly invariant fact of nature” if you’ve hung around the MIT math department student lounge, for example. https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1079367676022018048 … pic.twitter.com/TSoY71Ks0Q
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    2. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @gravity_levity @Meaningness

      Among a group selected very strongly for intelligence and less strongly -- but still strongly -- for social skills (navigating bureaucracy, academic politics, tenure tracking), one nevertheless sees people with weak social skills. This seems like evidence for the claim.

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    3. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness

      I see two (anecdotal) pieces of evidence that may not fit this interpretation. One is that the range of social skills among successful (say, physics) academics is very wide. It really seems to be as broad as the range among the public in general.

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    4. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @gravity_levity @St_Rev @Meaningness

      You encounter people who are gifted at getting others to like them and at enticing others to want to do things that they themselves want.

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    5. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @gravity_levity @St_Rev @Meaningness

      The other piece of evidence is that social awkwardness or unpleasantness seems to be much more prominent among the old and tenured. This suggests, to me, that social weirdness is enabled largely by impunity or lack of consequence.

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    6. St. Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @gravity_levity @Meaningness

      Or that the environment has become much less forgiving for the neurodivergent (which would be consistent with the growth of administrative power).

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    7. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness

      Also possible.

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    8. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @gravity_levity @St_Rev @Meaningness

      I have, in general, been worried about the question of whether all of us young physicists are going to end up turning into the weird alligators that are our senior colleagues, or whether that generation really was different from us in a basic way.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 30 Dec 2018
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      Replying to @gravity_levity @St_Rev

      FWIW I am more interested in the possibility of creating an alligator farm where weirdos can get on with doing geek stuff without interference from people whose goals and expertise center on skilled social interaction.

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