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Signaling
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Why Are Women Hot?
Jacob Falkovich
2d
10
439
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
17
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
20
Clothing For Men
Solnassant
3y
41
46
The red paperclip theory of status
Morendil
12y
22
33
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
sarahconstantin
3y
18
16
Why officers vs. enlisted?
JoshuaFox
9y
144
16
Status and Changing your Mind
jefftk
10y
19
15
Status: Map and Territory
alkjash
4y
3
7
Thoughts on status signals
pwno
13y
24
79
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
10
[LINK] Clothing as status signalling, logos and co-operation
Barry_Cotter
11y
9
1
The strongest status signals
pwno
12y
0
19
What if "status" IS a terminal value for most people?
handoflixue
9y
112
32
College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
15d
26
13
Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
M. Y. Zuo
2mo
7
94
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
169
Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
78
175
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
89
0
Disarming status
sano
5mo
1
66
The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem
lukeprog
10y
308
21
Replacing expensive costly signals
KatjaGrace
4y
13
129
When Truth Isn't Enough
Scott Alexander
13y
59
25
What do bad clothes signal about you?
Wei_Dai
11y
82
6
When a status symbol loses its plausible deniability, how much power does it lose?
Mati_Roy
2y
12
113
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361
146
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
157
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59