MichaelVassar 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 14 January 2010 03:21:02AM 3 points [-]

In general people get status for doing good things and they SHOULD in general do things that they get status for and are praised for. Even if the above correlation is far from perfect, people's own knowledge of what's good may not be better than the rules within a good community for assigning status so they should at least try doing high status things to find out first hand whether those things are actually good.