NancyLebovitz comments on Disconnect between Stated/Implemented Preferences - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: Strange7 17 March 2010 02:26AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 March 2010 10:22:36PM 2 points [-]

Why do you want more status?

Do you have ideas that you think are good but won't be heard unless you're more respected?

Comment author: MrHen 19 March 2010 02:29:11AM 2 points [-]

Not so much ideas as things that I think would be helpful but will be buried in obscurity at the level I am.

That being said, this is helped more by learning the basics through reading the sequences than playing status games. My thoughts on status should be taken with the clarification that I am primarily seeking to learn and am thinking about status because I find it interesting.

If I can take my comments and change my behavior so as to be looking forward and increase my status without hampering my ability to learn... why shouldn't I? When I look at the various status levels here at LessWrong I notice the highest level I can see, which is the one I mentioned in my previous comment.

These comments are meant to be taken as observations for people who are curious or interested. I am not nearly as concerned with status as these comments may imply. I just know status is there and wonder about it in the same way I wonder about most things.