mattnewport comments on The many faces of status - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Morendil 15 April 2010 03:31PM

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Comment author: thomblake 16 April 2010 06:44:51PM 1 point [-]

Actually, cheating in any social games angers people. Note that telling bad jokes provokes violence.

Comment author: mattnewport 16 April 2010 06:48:12PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. I'd argue that to a first approximation all social games are status games however.

Comment author: thomblake 16 April 2010 06:57:38PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the case made by that researcher regarding the jokes, anyway.