In my experience the 'social cost' tends to be paid by people trying to push (hard) concepts and ideas that are, often at least, very true and useful, but when it is not necessarily relevant to the conversation or the person isn't interested.
No price is due -- if anything, the opposite -- as long as you follow a few basic rules, and are able to explain your ideas eloquently and succinctly (and if you can't -- should you be talking about it at all?)
A curse of intelligent people seems to be to want to try to 'show' everyone just how smart they are by talking about subjects they don't totally understand, or else subjects that are irrelevant to whatever situation they are in.
A discussion on Bayesian Reasoning may be very appropriate in certain college or high school academic situations, but repeatedly bringing it up in all sorts of casual conversations will cause social harm to the individual refusing to follow social expectations in this are
Having weird ideas relative to your friends and associates means paying social costs. If you share your weird ideas, you'll have more arguments, your associates will see you as weird and you'll experience some degree of rejection and decreased status. If you keep your weird ideas to yourself, you'll have to lead a double life of secret constructed knowledge on the one hand and public facade on the other.
For people reading this site, the most vivid analogy here might be being forced to live in a town full of religious hicks in the south of the USA, with minimal contact with the outside world. (I've heard from reliable sources that the stereotypes about the South are accurate.) Not many of us would choose to do this voluntarily.
The weirder your beliefs get relative to your peer group, the greater the social costs you'll have to pay. Imagine we plot the beliefs of your associates on a multidimensional plot and put a hook at the center of mass of this plot. Picture yourself attached with an elastic band to this hook. The farther you stray from the center of mass, the greater the force pulling you towards conventional beliefs.
This theorizing has a few straightforward implications:
Some more bizarre ideas: