I have been gone a long time... learning social skills

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I thought I'd say hi and say that I'm progressing in my attempt to build social cognitive functions.

I'm about halfway there.

Good for you, I hope you get all the way there! Im a little curious. What have you been doing to build those social cognitive functions?

Good on you.

Keep up the good work, ephemerella - and welcome back to the Wrong Planet!

Welcome back to WrongPlanet.

Hello ephemerella, welcome back, good that you're progressing!

Enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

Lotta blogging, writing, fighting on forums. I've been developing rhetorical verbal social skills. I've also been working on models of social behavior and gathering data from my interactions to inform those models.

I did have scripts and rules for modeling social behavior previously, but my models have become more complicated in recent years. My new models are much more complex.

Now I'm doing some work out in the real world, and it looks like the behavior models (while they are purely abstract intellectual constructs) are really working to shed light on people's behavior when I interact with them. I.e. I now get something close to social insights when I interact with people.

So I guess my answer is that I've been engaging in immersive, intense amounts of verbal interactions on forums and using that (along with reading social psychology and neuroscience) to systemize social postures and rhetorical behavior. Now my models and data from intense forum exposure is helping me understand real world interactions more.

Hi! Thank you for welcoming me!

I'm looking forward to trying out my new humor and chatting skills here.

Thank you all who welcomed me!