occasionally i see people talking confidently about things that i know a lot about that they (by revelation) dont know anything about really smart people i respect sort of a gell mann but for everyone oh well
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I rarely make claims of great knowledge, and I get very itchy when people try to ascribe them to me e.g. "you're a hard science fiction author" WOAHH....I just know how to use Google, ok? and "well, you're a farmer" - hey hey now, I LARP on the weekends, I don't pay the bills
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and that itchiness leads me to add distance via verbal quirks "I LIVE ON a farm; I'm nnot a FARMER" "some calls the BOOKS hard SF; I'm just a coder" activity or location vs identity ties into conv. w
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this seems like the correct response for all of us and I super don't exclude myself