1/ I'm not in a bad mood, but I've got one small cranky thought: I don't understand when midwits come into smart spaces and say really really dumb things. I've occasionally hung out w, say, a bunch of physics PhDs who def have a std dev or so on me, and I am well aware of that
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2/ and tend to keep my mouth shut much more than usual. I do NOT just open my trap and say things like "so, most people probably haven't thought about this, but I've got a theory about how electrons work..."
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3/ because OBVIOUSLY, Lana, the result of that would be revealing myself as an undereducated idiot who is saying cringe & stupid things IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE BEING CALLED ON IT IS ABSOLUTELY GOING TO HAPPEN I mean, best case, there's an awkward silence and then convo resumes
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4/ I guess the answer is Dunning Kreuger, where some folks don't even have the lay of the land enough to realize when they're not equal to others in a space / not competent to have an opinion. ...but it still shocks me.
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5/ I gave the impression earlier that this was maybe an IQ thing, and I didn't mean to. It's not that physicists are smarter than me (well not JUST that). It's that they know about the domain. I wouldn't talk about skiing with a competitive skier either, of any IQ.
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6/ this is reasonable, but two problems: (a) dumbness is correlated, so the same person who has bad opinions on electrons has bad opinions on making chicken stock, and the electoral college, and cars >>>https://twitter.com/jeremywreal/status/1359920837541785602 …
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7/ (b) I suppress 90% of my "u r tarded" comments, and even then, I am caustic, mean, and unremittingly nasty to people, and I strive to be less like myself in that regard. So ... I just have to heard stupid things all the time, and can't respond.
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Is this why you've restricted your account to followers only? I know there are lots of reasons to do that, but this is a good one.
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no, local politics - barnlaw saga don't want local haters to find my twitter
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