+1 that “sustainable motivation points” are important
Additionally, I’ve always found it odd to imagine “weirdness points” 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 “they take you a little less seriously” and “they judge you as untrustworthy, unpredictable, or otherwise bad”, it’s not like those social expectations are completely invariant. For example, in some social circumstances is possible to set people’s 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 “weirdness points”. 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 “don’t be weird” 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 “sustainable motivation points” are important
Additionally, I’ve always found it odd to imagine “weirdness points” 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 “they take you a little less seriously” and “they judge you as untrustworthy, unpredictable, or otherwise bad”, it’s not like those social expectations are completely invariant. For example, in some social circumstances is possible to set people’s 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 “weirdness points”. 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 “don’t be weird” 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.