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

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 13 February 2010 11:05:59PM *  3 points [-]

Submitting to the social rules of rationality (as with rules in general) is low-status; claiming the right to believe (or generally do) whatever you want is high-status.

Apparent counterexample: high status (at least nominally) assigned to religious elites subject to strict rules of behavior.