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47 Post author: Zed 14 August 2011 10:23AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 August 2011 04:02:00PM 8 points [-]

Therefore, we should be very careful to not get into situations where we might need to explain things in short conversations in person.

Should I start staying indoors more?

Comment author: bcoburn 14 August 2011 04:17:20PM 2 points [-]

You could. Or you could just refuse to get into arguments about politics/philosophy. Or you could find a social group such that these things aren't problems.

I certainly don't have amazing solutions to this particular problem, but I'm fairly sure they exist.

Comment author: atucker 15 August 2011 02:45:52AM 1 point [-]

The solutions that I have so far are just finding groups of people who tend to be open-minded, and then discussing things from the perspective of "this is interesting, and I think somewhat compelling".

When I get back from vacation I intend to do more wandering around and talking to strangers about LWy type stuff until I get the impression that I don't sound like a crackpot. When I get good at talking about it with people with whom social mistakes are relatively cheap, I'll talk about it more with less open-minded friends.