army1987 comments on Why Real Men Wear Pink - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 18 November 2012 11:18:08PM 0 points [-]

I wouldn't call relative apathy about status signalling a "deeper problem", on the contrary, I'd call it a virtue. Enough effort is wasted on endless social hierarchy competitions already.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2012 05:40:47PM 1 point [-]

It depends: I wouldn't call not strongly caring about status as a terminal value a problem, but irrationally underestimating how important status is as an instrumental value for other goals is a problem (the stereotypical failure mode of nerds, and IME that stereotype does have a grain of truth).