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I'd suggest this article, "Sanity for Sociality", as a perhaps less longwinded and cleaner elucidation of the same idea. http://thefutureprimaeval.net/sanity-f

I'd suggest this article, "Sanity for Sociality", as a perhaps less longwinded and cleaner elucidation of the same idea. http://thefutureprimaeval.net/sanity-for-sociality/ http://thefutureprimaeval.net/sanity-for-sociality/ The gist of it: ...analyze the adoption of...Mormonism: Price: A small piece of sanity...[express belief in assorted weird Mormon things]...Some freedom... Value: Access to high-quality mates. Friendship, community, etc. A stable and sure flourishing life. Spiritual well-being. Most or all societies have similar requirements to sacrifice sanity for sacred beliefs, e.g. in my society I need to express a belief in the figurative Hitlerness of Trump. Applying this to the post under discussion, the author's theory seems to be that nerds are people less willing to sacrifice a piece of sanity in favor of sociality.

projektir 10y ago
> Applying this to the post under discussion, the author's theory seems to be that nerds are people less willing to sacrifice a piece of sanity in favor of sociality. We nerds just need to make our own religion. ;)
someguydave 10y ago
First off - I hope you picked up that blog from my comment last week - it's a high quality blog (I'm just a reader) - Beliefs about weird Mormon things aren't even falsifiable. In other words, it's possible that religion isn't even wrong about ultimate reality. - In my observation, nerdness is correlated correlated with "sensitive sensory" behavior. Nerds tend to be more curious about odd sights & sounds than regular people. My theory is that nerdly curiosity is related to some kind of abnormal sensory processing.