Epistemic loneliness debate: it's a sign you're not smart enough to onboard others
broodsugar · x · 2026-10-27
Dave Shapiro writes about "epistemic loneliness" — interests too intense and arcane to discuss at depth with most people — and his fix: letting boring people go and slowly collecting fellow weirdos (a transhumanist friend, a post-labor circle). broodsugar counters with a sharper take: epistemic loneliness is 100% a function of not being smart enough — smart enough to find something esoteric interesting, but not smart enough to onboard others. A lively argument about intellectual sociability and communication.
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