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

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2012 12:41:06AM *  0 points [-]

Nope. "All that glisters is not gold." You are probably implicitly assuming that "not" in English only negates what's after it and not what's in front of it, but English isn't that simple -- cf "You must not do X" (where "not" negates "do") and "You need not do X" (where "not" negates "need").