I have struggled with (my own) pedantry since I was a young child. It's like a biological urge to socially mutilate oneself
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@literalbanana@GabrielDuquette so there's selection pressure for a genetic pedantry distribution?
@The_Lagrangian @GabrielDuquette that's my wild hypothesis - I've seen good models of how cheap talk can evolve despite lying, witnesses key
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@The_Lagrangian@GabrielDuquette if the witnesses are asshole pedants even better but why can't I just be chill like everyone else :( -
@literalbanana@The_Lagrangian@GabrielDuquette your parents failed to withhold affection when you insisted on correcting their paraphrases - 2 more replies
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