Yep, based on the types of things somebody likes to talk about, the banality of their view of the world, what they simply regurgitate, what sort of nuance they bring (or can pick up on), pretty much allows you to place them in either bucket. And suffice it to say that the former bucket contains the least interesting people to talk with.
Anecdotally, as a life long STEM nerd, even smart people are boring.
I tire of discussing the potential of a theory; sure let me add that to the pile of a hundred others I heard about this month. How one was able to link two well known math objects by adding a few more of the well known glyphs; no one has ever done that before.
When one of you is on the verge of actually replacing relativity, or falsifying entropy, a warp drive, uploading kung fu to my consciousness; sure let’s hear it.
And FFS am I tired of listening to startup stories; it’s the new “read my script.” Machine aided reductions of daily life stats is a prosaic story to tell to someone who has been writing software since the 80s.
