Alicorn comments on Secret Identities vs. Groupthink - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Swimmy 09 April 2009 08:26PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 09 April 2009 09:08:00PM 3 points [-]

I suspect people are interested in talking to smart people because they expect/hope that the smart people will tell them that they, too, are smart, and they value this statement from a smart person more than from some random individual of lesser intelligence.