My mistake was in greatly underestimating the extent to which LWers are like this, given the unusually high IQ and the explicit goal of refining the art of rationality. I thought “these people are different so I don’t have to worry about that.”
I suspect that you’re correct that you don’t have to worry about arrogance as a strong communication barrier here—I noticed that you registered as arrogant, but didn’t really count it against you. Based on the other comments, it sounds like most readers did the same.
There’s a lot of conversation about status in the LW-sphere, particularly in the Overcoming Bias region. Since you wrote a post on social skills, and since that post did not seem to be using the social skill of status management, several commentators felt that it was worthwhile to tell you.
I suspect that you’re correct that you don’t have to worry about arrogance as a strong communication barrier here—I noticed that you registered as arrogant, but didn’t really count it against you. Based on the other comments, it sounds like most readers did the same.
There’s a lot of conversation about status in the LW-sphere, particularly in the Overcoming Bias region. Since you wrote a post on social skills, and since that post did not seem to be using the social skill of status management, several commentators felt that it was worthwhile to tell you.