One of the simplest ways to interact with people is to point out something wrong or bad, and a lot of nerds who want to interact with people fall into this pattern and end up coming off as totally unpleasant. On a purely animal level this is a bad socialization strategy.
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If instead of one on one, you do this on Twitter at a general audience you will gain follower bro
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If you’re wondering why this social instinct evolved but no longer works, well we live in a very different world than we used to. Nowadays it’s easy to filter out who you interact with and survived perfectly well in a chosen group or even alone. In short: atomization.
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Replying to @drethelin
wonder what the death rate for the insufferable in various EEAs was though
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Hard to compare because the people that stay insufferable for decades now were probably much more beaten up or became badass in the EEA
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Another factor is in EEA genetic and lifestyle similarity probably means there's a lot less stuff to nitpick and nitpicks are actually relatively valuable. Nowadays there's infinitely many wrong things you can say and 99.99 percent of them don't actually matter
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yeah I'm never mad when I get nitpicked about like wilderness safety stuff
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