army1987 comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Patrick 01 January 2013 06:40AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 January 2013 03:01:43PM *  0 points [-]

I think some of those behaviours are still (i.e., cognitively) signalling (according to the OP's definition) for a large part of the people who engage in them. (How many people actually terminally value dressing up in expensive fashionable clothing? Hint: Do they also do that at home?)