NancyLebovitz comments on How my social skills went from horrible to mediocre - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 25 May 2015 05:04:00AM -2 points [-]

Also nerds would prefer to hang out with normal people. This means that any normal person willing to hang out with nerds instantly gains high status within a nerd community. Also, nerds are perfectly willing to exile the more social inept nerds from their communities for the chance to have a normal person join. Tragically this tends to create a slippery slope that ends with nerds being exiled from their own communities.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 May 2015 04:47:22AM 3 points [-]

What? I prefer spending time with people who pretty much care about what I care about, and that's mostly nerds.

Why do you think nerds would rather hang out with normal people?