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Comment author: atucker 23 May 2011 02:54:58AM *  4 points [-]

On the other hand, social skills are instrumentally useful. A network of contacts takes time, but learning enough skills to avoid unintentionally pissing people off, and enough to be likable don't take too too long, and have a lot of benefit.

Comment author: Cyan 23 May 2011 03:06:18AM 10 points [-]

Indeed. In

nerds have more interesting things to learn than social skills

"interesting" =/= "useful"!