army1987 comments on Not all signalling/status behaviors are bad - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Stabilizer 25 March 2012 10:06AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 October 2012 11:45:00PM 2 points [-]

Yes. If everyone who says "I'm X" is actually Y and everybody knows that and people still say that, then essentially X has come to actually mean Y, whatever its literal meaning was.