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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no, it isn't, but the bulk of your brain doesn't know that people who've been watching Seinfeld for 10 years get the same juice when they see Jerry's face that they get when they see someone they've actually been friends with for 10 years
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Arthur Lipp-Bonewits, astrologer with the jeans added,
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substituting fantastical virtual bonding for boring social bonding is one million percent hand-to-glove with propaganda, polarization
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