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 “I’ve heard of the concept of “weirdness points” many times before, but after a bit of searching I can’t find a definitive post describing the concept, so I’ve decided to make one”
A commenter on the post notes that “The idiom used to describe that concept in social psychology is “idiosyncrasy credits”, so searching for that phrase produces more relevant material (though as far as I can tell nothing on Less Wrong specifically).”
The most often cited post on this is Peter Hurford’s You have a set amount of “weirdness points”. Spend them wisely. But the concept/term isn’t original to Peter, given that:
Peter opens the post by writing “I’ve heard of the concept of “weirdness points” many times before, but after a bit of searching I can’t find a definitive post describing the concept, so I’ve decided to make one”
A commenter on the post notes that “The idiom used to describe that concept in social psychology is “idiosyncrasy credits”, so searching for that phrase produces more relevant material (though as far as I can tell nothing on Less Wrong specifically).”