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24 Post author: Dorikka 09 September 2013 03:32AM

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Comment author: drethelin 09 September 2013 06:00:32PM 3 points [-]

On the contrary: most people in the world are ignorant, useless wastes of your time. One SHOULD cut them out of influencing you and taking up your attention. If you can choose to optimize yourself for interacting with the average mathematician or interacting with the average person, you should choose the mathematician.

But in any case: who said anything about cutting off? What exactly are you picturing here? Some sort of outfit that renders one invisible to anyone but bronies? That's not how clothing works, except in extreme examples.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 September 2013 07:26:19AM 3 points [-]

most people in the world are ignorant, useless wastes of your time

Most people in the world would be wastes of time due to the opportunity cost spending time with them would represent. "Useless" seems inaccurate, even without considering ways to stab people to death with their bones.