I sometimes worry that my ability to perceive social status isn’t calibrated well. I wonder if you might be experiencing that? They may have been patting you on the back for your cool questions rather than your jokes, but you completely missed it.
Also, there might be some selection effects on who shows up to philosophy meetups, such that their net total epistemics are worse than a randomly selected sample of people from the general population. To spitball a low confidence explanation—maybe they’re high in openmindedness, but haven’t developed an epistemic toolkit suited for dealing with that? So they do worse than more average closed-minded people in forming good beliefs? But honestly, I don’t like thinking this way very much. It’s not very charitable, and I wouldn’t want to say that to the faces of people I’m judging this way.
I guess if it were me, I would worry that maybe I was Just Wrong and I failed to engage with the social reality correctly? Like there was a layer or signal that I completely missed? A while back I read an essay about how neurotypical people differ from ASD people about their relationship to the Truth, and it’s stuck with me. It could be just that: they relate to Truth differently.
I sometimes worry that my ability to perceive social status isn’t calibrated well. I wonder if you might be experiencing that? They may have been patting you on the back for your cool questions rather than your jokes, but you completely missed it.
Also, there might be some selection effects on who shows up to philosophy meetups, such that their net total epistemics are worse than a randomly selected sample of people from the general population. To spitball a low confidence explanation—maybe they’re high in openmindedness, but haven’t developed an epistemic toolkit suited for dealing with that? So they do worse than more average closed-minded people in forming good beliefs? But honestly, I don’t like thinking this way very much. It’s not very charitable, and I wouldn’t want to say that to the faces of people I’m judging this way.
I guess if it were me, I would worry that maybe I was Just Wrong and I failed to engage with the social reality correctly? Like there was a layer or signal that I completely missed? A while back I read an essay about how neurotypical people differ from ASD people about their relationship to the Truth, and it’s stuck with me. It could be just that: they relate to Truth differently.