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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

Normies do thinking and sense-making in a distributed way. They talk as a group and come to an individual sense of what they think. Nerds are the insane who try to do all their thinking in their own head. https://t.co/h3f2eWijKv https://t.co/7Q8ugiPYOR

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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This is a fake distinction that points to something real. It absolutely makes more sense to me now how&why other people operated the way they did, and why it didn’t make sense for me. Their way makes sense to me. And why their way didn’t work for me.

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

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It’s not like I don’t do it. I totally do group sense-making too. Those “other people” individually think. They’re made of the same stuff as me. But our defaults were maybe different, and this did make a huge difference.

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

It’s why I felt psy-opped by the world a lot. (Except around other nerds, who would pass along helpful information, but also seemed to do the same thing.) *insert git joke somewhere *

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

e.g., this helps me understand more discussions about politics https://t.co/5SIPFo6lDN

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

i remember watching adults sit around a table, spitballing politics, and finding their discussion 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘦 like so inane i had to be missing something

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