+1 that âsustainable motivation pointsâ are important
Additionally, Iâve always found it odd to imagine âweirdness pointsâ as a totally fixed quantity. This was echoed in comments on the original post. While I agree that people have a limited tolerance for having their social expectations violated, and violating their expectations can have consequences between âthey take you a little less seriouslyâ and âthey judge you as untrustworthy, unpredictable, or otherwise badâ, itâs not like those social expectations are completely invariant. For example, in some social circumstances is possible to set peopleâs expectations, and increase their tolerance for you being weird.
ETA: it feels worth noting that much of the commentary on the post You have a set amount of âweirdness pointsâ. Spend them wisely., both on the EA forum and on LW (where is was cross-posted) was criticism of the concept of weirdness points. One major criticism was that âdonât be weirdâ probably matters for advocates (since much of their work is to make their ideas more mainstream) but probably matters a lot less in other career paths.
+1 that âsustainable motivation pointsâ are important
Additionally, Iâve always found it odd to imagine âweirdness pointsâ as a totally fixed quantity. This was echoed in comments on the original post. While I agree that people have a limited tolerance for having their social expectations violated, and violating their expectations can have consequences between âthey take you a little less seriouslyâ and âthey judge you as untrustworthy, unpredictable, or otherwise badâ, itâs not like those social expectations are completely invariant. For example, in some social circumstances is possible to set peopleâs expectations, and increase their tolerance for you being weird.
ETA: it feels worth noting that much of the commentary on the post You have a set amount of âweirdness pointsâ. Spend them wisely., both on the EA forum and on LW (where is was cross-posted) was criticism of the concept of weirdness points. One major criticism was that âdonât be weirdâ probably matters for advocates (since much of their work is to make their ideas more mainstream) but probably matters a lot less in other career paths.