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Comment author: [deleted] 22 October 2011 12:48:47PM *  11 points [-]

You are not a special little snowflake, but you should act like you are. If people are going to form impressions of you it’s better they make false positive ones than true negative ones.

-- Roissy in DC

Comment author: MixedNuts 31 October 2011 05:29:35PM 0 points [-]

Why am I not a special little snowflake?

Also, that's not an equilibrium. If everyone acts like a snowflake, if will stop creating positive impressions and people who can afford to will start acting humble to countersignal snowflakiness. Unless very few people can afford to, in which case the decision is isomorphic to the prisoner's dilemma and Roissy is telling people to defect.