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The Intellectual vs. The Social (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Are You Interested in a Topic?

The idea that people with unusual interests, you know, if they are randomly sorted among each other they don't find other people to talk to very easily. Sometimes we can make a special conglomeration of them where people come together around a set of topics that is similar enough and then they can have a burst of the sort of social interaction which is both passionate and careful. And then they can also sit off in topics and enthusiasm and basically communication distance.

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