Larks 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: Larks 13 January 2010 03:21:07PM 0 points [-]

The fact that they are high status and you are low status is evidence that they're right, reducing their incentive to listen.

Worse, if they listen and are convinced, this is evidence that they are low status, and you're high status.