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I just mean the latter. I think explanations involving pandering can work. The trouble I have with models that postulate stupidity, is that they need people to be stupid in a convenient direction. Stupidity is a much larger target than intelligence after all. I think explanation involving pandering work if you can explain (like you did with the affect hueristic) why these tricks will work on people.
Out of curiosity, what are the connotations of the word "rube" that make you suspicious?
But I am not convinced that your examples actualy do that.
The idiots are where they are because they have Won -- they have been playing the games of Climb The Coroporate Ladder and Look After Number One But Don't Make It Obvious quite succesfuly. It/s a lesswrongian prejjudice that the only game anyone would want to play is Highly Competent But Criminally Underappreciated Backroom Boffin. They don;t get sacked because their superiors are playing the same game according to the same rules.
You could object that companies where dick-swinging is appreciated more than achieving goals and targets won't have a long term future. Well, if there is someone in the chain who is playing Build A Company with a Lasting Future, then they're being stupid. But rationality is achiveing your goals. They've achieved theirs.
Yes. The general case of this prejudice is probably something like 'behavior morally should be evaluated according to its stated far-mode purpose; other purposes are possible and important, but dirty'. Of course, this has the large upside of making us seriously evaluate things according to their stated purpose at all....