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27 Post author: RobinHanson 22 May 2009 02:46AM

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Comment author: Swimmy 22 May 2009 03:47:38AM 16 points [-]

Maybe to find something we need to dissect "we" into smaller parts. On average masturbation is not signaling; for some small subset of people it is. On average we don't advertise how much time we spend on entertainment; for some subset of the population it's a matter of intense group politics.

Thanks to the internet, I can think of all kinds of bizarre subgroups whose behavior wouldn't have been associated with signaling in the past, until they found others like themselves, at which point ordinary status instincts took over.

Comment author: RobinHanson 22 May 2009 10:56:37AM 0 points [-]

Fair enough.