When I supposed that other people are feeling the same thing as I am, it usually turned out I was wrong.
As an obvious example example, almost no one around me was impressed by Less Wrong. I assumed that most people are not going to be interested, but I expected at least some reaction from the subset of, uhm, people with STEM education who like to talk about logic, fallacies, and stuff. Nope.
When I supposed that other people are feeling the same thing as I am, it usually turned out I was wrong.
As an obvious example example, almost no one around me was impressed by Less Wrong. I assumed that most people are not going to be interested, but I expected at least some reaction from the subset of, uhm, people with STEM education who like to talk about logic, fallacies, and stuff. Nope.