= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
RichardKennaway comments on More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (495)
How does one best optimize personal opinions for purposes of status-acquisition?
The same way you optimise the colour of a wheel for purposes of velocity-acquisition.
Make it expressed personal opinions, then.
I endorse this as being my original intention.
Myself, I just use my actual opinions -- I'm so bad at lying convincingly, and even if I was better, I have better things to spend my cognitive faculties on than keeping track of which people I tell which lies to.
OTOH, that's a very bad idea with people who don't already know you. (In that case, I play it safe, e.g. in the past couple years I only ever mentioned my beliefs in a God or the lack thereof to people I had already known for months, or whose ideas on the matter I already knew.)
The cheapest one so you have more money left for the motor.
This is an example of an opinion that is sometimes useful to believe but terrible to alieve.
Some opinions can get you killed or ostracised. Being killed and ostracised is low status.