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Intellectual Fashion
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Signaling
17
Why Are Women Hot?
Jacob Falkovich
2d
10
333
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
18
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
16
Clothing For Men
Solnassant
3y
41
57
The red paperclip theory of status
Morendil
12y
22
43
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
sarahconstantin
3y
18
23
Why officers vs. enlisted?
JoshuaFox
9y
144
22
Status and Changing your Mind
jefftk
10y
19
19
Status: Map and Territory
alkjash
4y
3
8
Thoughts on status signals
pwno
13y
24
90
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
14
[LINK] Clothing as status signalling, logos and co-operation
Barry_Cotter
11y
9
1
The strongest status signals
pwno
12y
0
29
What if "status" IS a terminal value for most people?
handoflixue
9y
112
15
College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
15d
26
2
Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
M. Y. Zuo
2mo
7
85
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
119
Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
78
133
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
89
-4
Disarming status
sano
5mo
1
84
The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem
lukeprog
10y
308
30
Replacing expensive costly signals
KatjaGrace
4y
13
130
When Truth Isn't Enough
Scott Alexander
13y
59
26
What do bad clothes signal about you?
Wei_Dai
11y
82
5
When a status symbol loses its plausible deniability, how much power does it lose?
Mati_Roy
2y
12
134
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361
136
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
171
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59