Desrtopa comments on On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 15 October 2011 02:42:14PM 3 points [-]

If everyone is using the same sorts of signals to establish themselves as hip and cool, then it diminishes the value of the signal. That's when countersignaling becomes useful.