In my experience the ‘social cost’ tends to be paid by people trying to push (hard) concepts and ideas that are, often at least, very true and useful, but when it is not necessarily relevant to the conversation or the person isn’t interested.
No price is due—if anything, the opposite—as long as you follow a few basic rules, and are able to explain your ideas eloquently and succinctly (and if you can’t—should you be talking about it at all?)
A curse of intelligent people seems to be to want to try to ‘show’ everyone just how smart they are by talking about subjects they don’t totally understand, or else subjects that are irrelevant to whatever situation they are in.
A discussion on Bayesian Reasoning may be very appropriate in certain college or high school academic situations, but repeatedly bringing it up in all sorts of casual conversations will cause social harm to the individual refusing to follow social expectations in this are
In my experience the ‘social cost’ tends to be paid by people trying to push (hard) concepts and ideas that are, often at least, very true and useful, but when it is not necessarily relevant to the conversation or the person isn’t interested.
No price is due—if anything, the opposite—as long as you follow a few basic rules, and are able to explain your ideas eloquently and succinctly (and if you can’t—should you be talking about it at all?)
A curse of intelligent people seems to be to want to try to ‘show’ everyone just how smart they are by talking about subjects they don’t totally understand, or else subjects that are irrelevant to whatever situation they are in.
A discussion on Bayesian Reasoning may be very appropriate in certain college or high school academic situations, but repeatedly bringing it up in all sorts of casual conversations will cause social harm to the individual refusing to follow social expectations in this are