wedrifid comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong
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Note that my own assertion was (with emphasis added):
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.