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I think I don't think that being interesting to other people and being popular to other people is the same thing. A physical beautiful woman can be popular because he's attractive and not because she's engaging in interesting conversation.
Let me rephrase, then.
I find it curious how many people measure the interestingness of a person by social popularity, existent or potential.
That rephrase still doesn't work. Someone who is super hot may be super popular, but this doesn't mean they'll be measured as being extremely interesting.
But, addressing your argument more thoroughly, interestingness is necessarily dependent on a perceiver. However, it doesn't have to be relative to the population as a whole, it can instead be relative to whatever subgroup of people you fancy.
Eh? I'm making an observation, not a normative statement. It is also not a claim about everyone.
Correct :-) Subgroups can be arbitrarily small up to and including the limit of one -- yourself only.