hypothesis: interweaving study of a subject with the subject's history works so well because it leverages social cognition faculties toward the process, at the cost of using up some of the student's Dunbar number on the subject's historical figures
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this then is why nerds appear to maintain small social circles: they don't actually, but the bulk of their social circle is dead or geographically unavailable for pub crawls
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alternative hypothesis: nerds are generally egotists whose resentment and delusions of grandeur make them insufferable
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maybe that's an epiphenomenon of this because you'd have delusions of grandeur too if your best friends were Isaac Newton, Thomas Aquinas, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, and Maimonides TV show pitch: Friends, but it's just one nerd interacting with his tulpas
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guess it's time to see what my bro Aristotle (BEST PHILOSOPHER YOOOO) says about friendship
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Knowing one great man is akin to knowing a million NPC's.
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everyone is an npc to someone, unfortunately
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NPC me daddy.
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people, who need people, to vend them basic weapons and armor, are the luckiest people in the world
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my squad my squad I only love my squad don’t care about no god I only love my squadpic.twitter.com/yBr0iHFURo
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