MendelSchmiedekamp comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2010 04:36PM

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Comment author: MatthewB 12 January 2010 04:57:53PM 1 point [-]

High-Status relative to what/whom?

Comment author: MendelSchmiedekamp 12 January 2010 07:00:08PM 2 points [-]

This should not be underestimated as an issue. Status as we use it here and at overcoming bias tends to be simplified into something not unlike a monetary model.

It is possible to try to treat things like status reductively, but in the current discussion it will hopefully suffice to characterize it with more nuance than "social wealth".