That can go too far though, as you can then be viewed as the weird person with the seal plushie, which now means you’re harder to approach and somewhat threatening because you’re different from others, which implies there might be potential difficulties with communication or whatever and so maybe it’s better to avoid you, or not, because then I’m the one being weird… I’ll just go and talk to Bob to avoid all of this.
That can go too far though, as you can then be viewed as the weird person with the seal plushie, which now means you’re harder to approach and somewhat threatening because you’re different from others, which implies there might be potential difficulties with communication or whatever and so maybe it’s better to avoid you, or not, because then I’m the one being weird… I’ll just go and talk to Bob to avoid all of this.
Or something like that.
Yeah, per Kaj’s no free lunch thing https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WK979aX9KpfEMd9R9/how-to-dress-to-improve-your-epistemics?commentId=Q3do78rjEk6mrrtKf