wedrifid 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: wedrifid 03 January 2013 05:52:18PM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure this follows.

Note that my own assertion was (with emphasis added):

That isn't true (or at least doesn't follow).

I am not claiming that it is not ever possible to mimic dominance displays in some context without actually having dominance. I am claiming that using behaviors that actually successfully dominate is not mimicking dominance. Said dominance may in turn be done for the purpose of mimicking something else.

Comment author: DaFranker 03 January 2013 06:00:20PM 0 points [-]

I am not claiming that it is not ever possible to mimic dominance displays in some context without actually having dominance. I am claiming that using behaviors that actually successfully dominate is not mimicking dominance. Said dominance may in turn be done for the purpose of mimicking something else.

Ah, thanks. Oops.