aausch comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: aausch 15 January 2010 06:04:24AM *  6 points [-]

High status people tend to be significantly busier, and their attention is faced with consistently higher demands. As such, they have developed much more complicated filters to remove distractions, which you will have to navigate before you can have an intelligent conversation with them.