>while if you’re a normal person reading this (haha, jk), you might think I’m awful hard on nerds (how can you say such mean things as that they don’t care what others think and are incapable of properly expressing themselves?)
Testing this sounds worth doing. Intuitively, I think it’s false. Caring too much about what other people think is in general a low status thing, while caring about the truth is a high status thing (if not particularly important).
>while if you’re a normal person reading this (haha, jk), you might think I’m awful hard on nerds (how can you say such mean things as that they don’t care what others think and are incapable of properly expressing themselves?)
Testing this sounds worth doing. Intuitively, I think it’s false. Caring too much about what other people think is in general a low status thing, while caring about the truth is a high status thing (if not particularly important).