Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003)

GSF #6: The patterns I see among my geek friends are patterns peculiar to geeks<p>This is a very interesting list of social assumptions that many people hold or have held but often don&#x27;t hold up, and it&#x27;s good to think about them.<p>But they&#x27;re not universal among &quot;geeks&quot; nor rare among people who are not geeks, so the narrow framing and the armchair psychoanalyzing within that framing distract from the real insights.

I would say this would have been nice to know ~20 years ago, but umm, it came out ~20 years ago. Ah well.<p>Perhaps I had to learn my lessons the hard way regardless

Huh, seems I&#x27;m prone to #4. I don&#x27;t force people together that don&#x27;t want to be together, but I do find it close-minded in most cases that they think those things. I keep those thoughts to myself and simply ask them their feelings about that other person, and I always find that I can&#x27;t relate and then keep it at that.<p>I find it hard to accept it&#x27;s social fallacy. I can see the others though, so I&#x27;ll take it seriously and work to a point where I can at least understand the perspective. The why this is a fallacy isn&#x27;t really explained. I do get that if it is perceived as a fallacy that certain requests are in appropriate

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These are interesting observations for social interactions, and I think they’re generally useful.<p>One thing I’ve personally noticed is that traumatized people have cognitive distortions which go beyond simply social awkwardness. There are physiological changes which may help explain such behavior <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6428430&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC6428430&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3181836&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3181836&#x2F;</a>

I like that the way it is expressed uses a lot of mathematical concepts, notably in the theory of sets&#x2F;groups. This seems to be required so the audience understands it.<p>There is an assumption here that geeks respond better to scientific-formatted articles.

Why does the author say they are fallacies and treat them as true? He never describes what makes them fallacious.

was this on k5?