Dorikka comments on Mitigating Social Awkwardness - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Cayenne 01 May 2011 12:54AM

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Comment author: Dorikka 01 May 2011 05:20:49PM 1 point [-]

"why didn't you care?" "Uh, because X, I guess"

Data point: If you did this with me, then you'd need to be pretty careful not to sound defensive. I tend to shrug, grin, and make a fairly non-specific response because usually when people ask that question, I'm just trying to get them off my back. If you wanted to me to try and give you a thoughtful answer, you'd want to convey curiosity, even prefacing the question with 'I'm curious..."

Comment author: Raemon 02 May 2011 01:29:18AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, my actual script there wouldn't work very well. I didn't bother trying to do a better one because it'd be incredibly context-dependent, and any "good" specifics I gave wouldn't really work anyway.