certain people are unlikely to get thoughtful answers from me because talking with them is like talking to a locomotive bearing down on your position
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this is not a subtweeting exercise, these people exist in the wild and are Real also if your response to reading this is "what is this . . . me?" it is probably not you because of your now-demonstrated capacity for introspection after hearing an idea from someone else
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otoh if your twitter Avi is something scary rather than cute or dumb well i become suspicious
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define "aggressive" ? it's not a crisp boundary, but an infinite continuum ... and your argument applies to anything except the absolute most passive end of it, I think theory 1: aggressiveness is a filter, and those who make it past are more rewarding (to the aggressive person
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theory 2: aggressiveness in conversation is correlated with other beneficial things - like sickle cell anemia and malaria resistance. E.g. one puts up with an aggressive VC friend bc he also throws off money and jobs
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I think the lower interaction from relaxed people their aggression "attacks" is offset by higher interaction from relaxed people their aggression defends or assists. It may still be long term losing on balance, but maybe only slightly?
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Hm I don't quite follow?
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Sorry, I'm fucking up the incentive structure by letting aggressive people walk all over me. My bad.
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sure but you can do that passively or assertively probably a safer bet if you're in the minority honestly
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