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Signaling
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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
368
112
Making yourself small
Helen
4y
53
106
That other kind of status
Scott Alexander
12y
113
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Why Real Men Wear Pink
Scott Alexander
13y
155
90
Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch
Viliam
2y
12
82
How can we get more and better LW contrarians?
Wei_Dai
10y
335
76
Give praise
4y
87
72
Status Regulation and Anxious Underconfidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5y
17
68
The Contrarian Status Catch-22
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
102
64
Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki
lsparrish
10y
46
57
The red paperclip theory of status
Morendil
12y
22
57
We can all be high status
4y
24
57
High Status and Stupidity: Why?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
145
48
The many faces of status
Morendil
12y
109
171
Motive Ambiguity
Zvi
2y
59
136
What Is Signaling, Really?
Scott Alexander
10y
174
134
Undiscriminating Skepticism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
1361
133
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
89
130
When Truth Isn't Enough
Scott Alexander
13y
59
121
Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief
AnnaSalamon
10y
71
119
Pretending to be Wise
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
78
102
Book review: Very Important People
Richard_Ngo
8mo
17
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A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
Scott Alexander
11y
61
85
Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Aaron Bergman
4mo
7
84
The Singularity Institute's Arrogance Problem
lukeprog
10y
308
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Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
3y
39
76
Mandatory Obsessions
Jacob Falkovich
4y
14
74
Things You Can't Countersignal
Alicorn
12y
126