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I don't have much data here, but I guess none of us do. Personally, I haven't found it terribly helpful to learn that I'm probably driven in large part by status seeking, and not just pure intellectual curiosity. I'm curious what data points you have.
Do you ever find yourself in situations where you would predict different things if you thought you were a pure-intellectual-curiosity-satisfier than if you think you're in part a status-maximizer?
If so, is making more accurate predictions in such situations useful, or do accurate predictions not matter much?
I suspect that if I thought of myself as a pure-intellectual-curiosity-satisfier, I would be a lot more bewildered by my behavior and my choices than I am, and struggle with them a lot more than I do, and both of those would make me less happy.