But I think I agree with whoever it was (Eliezer?) who said that there are weirdness points: you are allowed to be only so weird before people stop taking you seriously.
Peter opens the post by writing âIâve heard of the concept of âweirdness pointsâ many times before, but after a bit of searching I canât find a definitive post describing the concept, so Iâve decided to make oneâ
A commenter on the post notes that âThe idiom used to describe that concept in social psychology is âidiosyncrasy creditsâ, so searching for that phrase produces more relevant material (though as far as I can tell nothing on Less Wrong specifically).â
The most often cited post on this is Peter Hurfordâs You have a set amount of âweirdness pointsâ. Spend them wisely. But the concept/âterm isnât original to Peter, given that:
Peter opens the post by writing âIâve heard of the concept of âweirdness pointsâ many times before, but after a bit of searching I canât find a definitive post describing the concept, so Iâve decided to make oneâ
A commenter on the post notes that âThe idiom used to describe that concept in social psychology is âidiosyncrasy creditsâ, so searching for that phrase produces more relevant material (though as far as I can tell nothing on Less Wrong specifically).â