Nice, but I have my own theory on what makes a person interesting to be around :-)
Reddit has a section called AMA, short for “ask me anything”. The karma scores and comment counts for each topic may be used as rough indicators of how much that topic interests regular people. My impression is that you get the biggest response by posting something like “I am a highly paid prostitute, AMA” or “I killed two men, AMA”. Transhumanism and RPG books probably wouldn’t score much.
The graph, the practiced transitions, and the sensitivity to your interlocutor’s level of interest in the current node, relative to other nodes and the weighted distance to each better node—all that is a general tool for interesting conversations. Having a specific set of life experiences is a more specialized way to have interesting conversations.
Nice, but I have my own theory on what makes a person interesting to be around :-)
Reddit has a section called AMA, short for “ask me anything”. The karma scores and comment counts for each topic may be used as rough indicators of how much that topic interests regular people. My impression is that you get the biggest response by posting something like “I am a highly paid prostitute, AMA” or “I killed two men, AMA”. Transhumanism and RPG books probably wouldn’t score much.
The graph, the practiced transitions, and the sensitivity to your interlocutor’s level of interest in the current node, relative to other nodes and the weighted distance to each better node—all that is a general tool for interesting conversations. Having a specific set of life experiences is a more specialized way to have interesting conversations.