"But doctor, I am Pagliacci"
That joke’s got a whole section in the article.
Sad clown paradox
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#12"But doctor, I am Pagliacci"
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I think this is similar to mistaken belief like there is link between "bipolar disorder and artistic ability".Kay Redfield Jamison proposes such a thesis. There is substantial number of artists who don't have bipolar as well large number of bipolar people who don't have artistic ability
I'm not saying there's a link, but that's very far from disproving a link.
How is one being a clown related to sadness if the distribution of sad people is same irrespective of profession?
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#14There's a related phenomenon I've seen a lot, sometimes firsthand, of people who consider themselves shy while others consider them the life of the party.
Being shy doesn't mean you are silent. It means you have to use energy and courage to break that silence.
So while most people would say someone who doesn't dare to talk is shy, it is totally possible to still be shy and be the life of the party.
As an introvert who has zero stage fright and good talking skills: I am still an introvert. Being around people costs me energy, while for extroverts not being around people costs them energy. I would not be perceived as an introvert by most.
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#15There's a related phenomenon I've seen a lot, sometimes firsthand, of people who consider themselves shy while others consider them the life of the party.
I always figured it was just human nature, I think it is something like.
Interacting with unknown people is slightly stressful, you feel this stress yourself but it is hard/impossible to see in others(unless they actually are really bad with interaction). so when self diagnosed most people will say they are introverts, or on the introvert side of the graph(they feel this way based on what they see). but when graded externally would be average or extroverted.
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#16There's a related phenomenon I've seen a lot, sometimes firsthand, of people who consider themselves shy while others consider them the life of the party.
Some of that phenomenon may be that people want to be considered shy. Like how people say they were a "nerd" in high school, so their current them is "but look at me now!".
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#17Doesn't seem paradoxical to me at all. If you learn enough about the world, quite a lot of it turns into a big joke. It's a surreal feeling. Like nothing you do matters because it's all just an absurd joke.
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#18That “Rorschach test” section is weird, someone basically decided to summarize some random book.
Maybe that's just what you see in it.
I see a pretty butterfly.
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#20As I was saying, jokes are unit tests of understanding:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38058350
That "understanding" could well be coping with pain.