#metaphysical #social #conversation #humans # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # [[Conversation]] [[Inertia]] #to-digest Imagine Bob starts talking about the weather with Alice, so she answers something about the rain, the sun… the conversation goes on in this semantic. So you just spent 20 minutes discussing the weather. That’s why good [[Conversation starters]] are so important, it’s like the initial bias in your [[Neural networks]]. [[Via Negativa|Less is more]] again, prefer no to talk than to talk about the news or politics. On the other hand, I saw myself in parties not talking for minutes/hours at all because everyone does small talk, I think I should try to break the established structure ## Maintaining inertia Imagine Bob and Alice starts a [[Conversation|conversation]] at 8 PM. ![[Pasted image 20220830075857.png]] Somehow (with [[Big Talks]] maybe) they reach some [[Inertia]], meaning that these small talks warmed up the ambiance and they have more ease discussing more deep and profound topics, they reached a kind of inertia. I think inertia has some limitation of course ![[Pasted image 20220830080522.png]] Though I believe energy is more or less maintainable depending with whom you're talking to/how interesting the conversation is, i.e. maybe Bob would talk with Alice for 8 hours but only 3 hours with John ([[Evolutionary psychology]]). # External links