Maybe you should try an anime convention or Comic-Con instead? (Assuming you have any interest in geeky entertainment topics...)
But yeah, having an experience akin to being a world class musician listening to a middle school band and cringing at how bad they sounded must not have been pleasant.
not a bad instinct, the only non-rationalist non-work convention i went to last year was dashcon 2, and that was great. still suffered some amount of psychic damage from the requisite amount of code switching and ambient poor epistemic hygiene, but there was enough novelty on offer to make up for it, and i ended up finding some really interesting folks to hang out with :)
it’s not a pure solution in that what i’d like to do is to increase the % of people i feel like i can talk to, and so being like “oh yeah and at this several hundred person convention i found one or two people i click with” is like… sort of consolation prize shaped?
I think most people have trouble finding people at conventions they can click with, at least for longer than a few minutes, simply because of how hectic and overwhelming things can get...
Maybe you should try an anime convention or Comic-Con instead? (Assuming you have any interest in geeky entertainment topics...)
But yeah, having an experience akin to being a world class musician listening to a middle school band and cringing at how bad they sounded must not have been pleasant.
not a bad instinct, the only non-rationalist non-work convention i went to last year was dashcon 2, and that was great. still suffered some amount of psychic damage from the requisite amount of code switching and ambient poor epistemic hygiene, but there was enough novelty on offer to make up for it, and i ended up finding some really interesting folks to hang out with :)
it’s not a pure solution in that what i’d like to do is to increase the % of people i feel like i can talk to, and so being like “oh yeah and at this several hundred person convention i found one or two people i click with” is like… sort of consolation prize shaped?
Possibly stupid question: what do you think would happen if you tried to connect with and talk to literal children?
i would like to know where this question leads, since i in principle like children and animals and yet have no idea what to do with them
I think most people have trouble finding people at conventions they can click with, at least for longer than a few minutes, simply because of how hectic and overwhelming things can get...