AdeleneDawner 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: MichaelVassar 13 January 2010 11:03:03PM 2 points [-]

Data point, praising the group gets the group to praise or up-vote you and is a good way to gain status, contra http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/status-audit.html#more-21415 Important for people to remember this for future use.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 13 January 2010 11:11:51PM *  3 points [-]

I'm one of the people who upvoted that, and I didn't upvote it for praise (also, I haven't been involved in the conversation in question, so the praise wasn't directed at me). I upvoted it for giving useful feedback and supporting a dynamic I want to see more of.