Eliezer_Yudkowsky 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: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2010 07:47:53PM 2 points [-]

Would it be helpful if we occasionally mocked, berated and told you how low-status you really are in the scheme of things? (Only half kidding).

No. If you were going to try something like that, and you shouldn't, you would try expecting more from me in the areas I was already good at.

EDIT: So as to keep me in a state of status-seeking, rather than status-having - low status isn't necessarily good either.