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Signaling
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Why Are Women Hot?
Jacob Falkovich
2d
10
18
Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
5mo
1
90
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
333
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
112
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
76
Give praise
4y
87
72
Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
17
57
We can all be high status
4y
24
43
Pecking Order and Flight Leadership
sarahconstantin
3y
18
28
Who's an unusual thinker that you recommend following?
DonyChristie
3y
4
12
Gossip
Yoav Ravid
1y
7
36
A Self-Respect Feedback Loop
ialdabaoth
4y
20
25
Hierarchy and wings
Benquo
3y
22
106
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113
15
College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
15d
26
85
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
102
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
171
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
40
Virtue signaling is sometimes the best or the only metric we have
Holly_Elmore
7mo
44
82
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
49
My paper was signalling the whole time - Robin Hanson wins again
rockthecasbah
2y
19
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
38
What Does "Signalling" Mean?
abramdemski
2y
18
2
Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
M. Y. Zuo
2mo
7
136
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
30
The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs
Gentzel
2y
4
121
Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
71
134
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361