I’m new here but this really resonated with me. I’m a little shy that commiserating might not be an appropriate use of a comment on LessWrong, but here we go...
I am probably also a midwit, perhaps an upper-midwit, as evidenced by the fact that I’m only finding this community now (and I might not last here), but none the less, trying to talk about actual things with other nominally “smart” people like my fellow engineer coworkers has just been driving me absolutely bonkers lately. I catch myself following them down irrelevant branch arguments or having to discuss some trending topic on X with a veneer of sophistication yet also somehow in the most superficial (and boring) way.
In fact, I’m not really that upset by Schopenhauer’s dullards who can only appreciate sensual pleasure. I figure I just enjoy “smarter” things and I pursue the things I enjoy because I enjoy them. But when someone is supposed to be smart but only talks about smart things in dumb ways… yeah, it’s rough.
Maybe I can find a community here. (And maybe I can stay involved rather than drifting off to the next thing.) I hope so!
I’m new here but this really resonated with me. I’m a little shy that commiserating might not be an appropriate use of a comment on LessWrong, but here we go...
I am probably also a midwit, perhaps an upper-midwit, as evidenced by the fact that I’m only finding this community now (and I might not last here), but none the less, trying to talk about actual things with other nominally “smart” people like my fellow engineer coworkers has just been driving me absolutely bonkers lately. I catch myself following them down irrelevant branch arguments or having to discuss some trending topic on X with a veneer of sophistication yet also somehow in the most superficial (and boring) way.
In fact, I’m not really that upset by Schopenhauer’s dullards who can only appreciate sensual pleasure. I figure I just enjoy “smarter” things and I pursue the things I enjoy because I enjoy them. But when someone is supposed to be smart but only talks about smart things in dumb ways… yeah, it’s rough.
Maybe I can find a community here. (And maybe I can stay involved rather than drifting off to the next thing.) I hope so!