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Comment author: [deleted] 30 April 2013 06:24:47PM 6 points [-]

Yes. My System 1/elephant keeps forgetting that there exists such a thing as shyness,¹ and as a result it repeatedly misinterprets ‘[I like you, but I'm too shy to show you]’ as ‘[I don't like you, but I'm too polite to show you]’.


  1. Well, I'm often shy myself, but only when initiating an interaction. When the interaction has already started, I usually have no problem whatsoever reciprocating, unless I actually don't like the other person. And my System 1 generalizes from one example and finds it hard to alieve that other people can be too shy to continue an interaction that's already started unless they don't like me.