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James_Miller comments on Open thread, September 8-14, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: James_Miller 11 September 2014 06:17:15PM *  4 points [-]

It's also stuff such as I don't like sports, music, fashion, or small talk, and in high school and college made zero effort to pay attention to them and it cost me socially. I realize now I should have at least pretended to like them to have had a better social life.

Comment author: Lumifer 11 September 2014 06:26:04PM 7 points [-]

It's also stuff such as I don't like sports, music, fashion, or small talk

That makes you a fully-conforming geek, as you undoubtedly know. Welcome to the club :-)

Comment author: cameroncowan 11 September 2014 07:31:00PM 3 points [-]

I figured out when I was about 15 years old that I had to keep on things I didn't care about to earn points socially and it helped me a great deal and powers what I do as a writer and talk show presenter.