Alas, memetic pressures and credential issuance and incentives are not particularly well aligned with truth or discovery, so this strategy fails predictably in a whole slew of places.
Can you provide specific examples of places where this fails predictably to illustrate? Better: can you make a few predictions of future failures?
If I understand correctly, your position is that we lose status points when we say weird (as in a few standard deviations outside the normal range) but likely true things, and it’s useful to get the points back by being cool (=dressing well).
It seems true that there is only so much weird things you can say before people write you off as crazy.
Do you think a strategy where you try to not lose points in the first place would work? for example by letting your interlocutor come to the conclusion on their own by using the Socratic method?
If I understand correctly, your position is that we lose status points when we say weird (as in a few standard deviations outside the normal range) but likely true things, and it’s useful to get the points back by being cool (=dressing well).
That is not my position.
Being cool is a specific social strategy (not synonymous with dressing well). The nature of that strategy frees one to do a lot more nonconformist-signalling things, without losing status each time, because doing nonconformist-signalling things is an expected part of people playing a “cool” social role.
Can you provide specific examples of places where this fails predictably to illustrate? Better: can you make a few predictions of future failures?
If I understand correctly, your position is that we lose status points when we say weird (as in a few standard deviations outside the normal range) but likely true things, and it’s useful to get the points back by being cool (=dressing well).
It seems true that there is only so much weird things you can say before people write you off as crazy.
Do you think a strategy where you try to not lose points in the first place would work? for example by letting your interlocutor come to the conclusion on their own by using the Socratic method?
That is not my position.
Being cool is a specific social strategy (not synonymous with dressing well). The nature of that strategy frees one to do a lot more nonconformist-signalling things, without losing status each time, because doing nonconformist-signalling things is an expected part of people playing a “cool” social role.