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Signaling
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Why Are Women Hot?
Jacob Falkovich
2d
10
19
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
101
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
121
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
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Give praise
4y
87
227
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
53
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
sarahconstantin
3y
18
62
Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
17
48
A Self-Respect Feedback Loop
ialdabaoth
4y
20
34
Hierarchy and wings
Benquo
3y
22
103
How can we get more and better LW contrarians?
Wei_Dai
10y
335
12
Gossip
Yoav Ravid
1y
7
118
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113
32
We can all be high status
4y
24
76
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
91
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
185
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
42
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
44
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Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
57
My paper was signalling the whole time - Robin Hanson wins again
rockthecasbah
2y
19
53
What Does "Signalling" Mean?
abramdemski
2y
18
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
38
The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs
Gentzel
2y
4
151
Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
71
126
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
155
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361
120
A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
Scott Alexander
11y
61
102
The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem
lukeprog
10y
308