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Christian_Szegedy comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong
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I don't completely understand the original post: What do you mean by "high status"?
It is a completely different question why is it hard to have a good conversation with a congressman or with a famous string theorist.
I don't have much experience with the first categories (economically, politically influential people) but with scientific people (in natural sciences, mathematics and engineering) my experience has been that high status individuals (university professors, researchers) are in average much more fun to talk to than grad students. At least, this was my subjective personal impression.
Answered here.
I don't completely understand that comment either.
Does it mean that the question is whether the belief in one's own high status would influence the person to behave stupidly in some sense?
Belief in own status, or changed circumstances from people respecting the person.
Yes