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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.
But "people who should be ignored" and "people who don't care how you look" are hardly identical sets. If anything, they're more likely to be opposed than overlapping. The sort of people you want to deal with are usually those with enough merit to have choices in who they interact with, and thus they're naturally more picky.
I'm not against CARING HOW YOU LOOK. I'm against the view that caring how you look means you need to wear a suit or polo shirt and slacks or whatever the generic high-class look is.
There's other ways to care, but as a rule successful people are more likely to be worth knowing than others, are more able to be picky with their class distinctions, and are thus most likely to be worth emulating. It's not a universal strategy, but it's a common enough one that it's worth keeping it available.