Ordinary Banana

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.

If instead of one on one, you do this on Twitter at a general audience you will gain follower bro

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.

wonder what the death rate for the insufferable in various EEAs was though

Hard to compare because the people that stay insufferable for decades now were probably much more beaten up or became badass in the EEA

insufferability life history theory

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