I'd like to ask an even stupider one: why do people want to talk to strangers?
I've had a few such conversations on trains and the like, and I'm not especially averse to it, but I think afterwards, what was the point of that?
Well, that passed the time.
*It would have passed anyway.*
Yes, but not as quickly.
At least the train eventually arrives.
To meet new people?
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.