Robin, how else should I understand this:

(Eliezer) Raymond Smullyan's books aren't just signaling that he's high-status enough to write logic puzzles in informal language. He's using informal language because he wants you to understand his logic puzzles, and he's high-status enough to get away with using informal language.

(Robin's reply) Eliezer, humans evolved tendencies to take the actions that signal high status and when possible to consciously believe that such actions were done for some other more noble purposes.