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Signaling
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Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
79
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
439
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
103
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
82
We can all be high status
4y
24
82
Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
17
71
Give praise
4y
87
33
Who's an unusual thinker that you recommend following?
DonyChristie
3y
4
33
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
sarahconstantin
3y
18
17
Social Dynamics
curi
2y
3
12
Gossip
Yoav Ravid
1y
7
94
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113
24
Status model
Bucky
4y
7
12
Status for status sake is a fact of political life
rockthecasbah
2y
11
32
College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
15d
26
94
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
113
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
13
Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
M. Y. Zuo
2mo
7
157
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
38
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
44
81
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
41
My paper was signalling the whole time - Robin Hanson wins again
rockthecasbah
2y
19
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
146
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
23
What Does "Signalling" Mean?
abramdemski
2y
18
169
Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
78
175
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
89
22
Signaling: Why People Have Conversations
liam_hinzman
2y
21