taryneast comments on On Expressing Your Concerns - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 December 2007 04:04AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 19 December 2010 03:35:58PM 1 point [-]

Did he happen to mention the necessity of acquiring high status via other means (or signalling conformance to high status trends in most other areas) before trying things like this?

Comment author: taryneast 19 December 2010 04:09:08PM 1 point [-]

Not that I recall... though I suspect that it'd actually work better as an idiot detector if you were not of high status... because you would be more likely to get an honest reaction.

If I were somebody very famous - some people might actually repress their natural tendencies to be an arse about something they didn't expect... and instead assume that I was being "avant garde"... ie a fashion inspiration instead.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 December 2010 03:50:24AM 1 point [-]

Good point.