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Comment author: WhyAsk 18 January 2016 07:45:53PM *  0 points [-]

Cost of being less wrong: increased cognitive load?

Benefit oblw: longer life expectancy?

Risk oblw: becoming a pariah in most crowds?

Comment author: username2 18 January 2016 10:26:21PM 2 points [-]

Finding a crowd that allows your abilities to bloom is a useful skill as well :)

Comment author: WhyAsk 19 January 2016 01:40:41AM 0 points [-]

That's one reason I'm here, but in the limited time the mortality tables give me I'd like to find a way to present myself favorably to almost any crowd.

In the past, very few have cheered me on and a more vocal few have fervently hoped I'd fail.

Comment author: TimS 19 January 2016 03:40:31PM 2 points [-]

There's no reason you should be a pariah accidentally simply because you have clarified your goals or gotten better at implementing them.

One possibility - your estimate of how many people are not friends to you. That sucks, but you can't force another person to be a good person at you.

Remember the right way to approach someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet, and apply the same principle to in-person interactions.

I'd like to find a way to present myself favorably to almost any crowd.

This is a much harder, and dramatically different goal, from not being a pariah.

Comment author: PipFoweraker 19 January 2016 10:03:12PM 0 points [-]

There is value in having crowds that view you mildly and strongly disfavourably, but much of this value depends on the rule of law in one's immediate environment.