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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on xkcd on the AI box experiment - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:26AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 November 2014 08:15:08PM 0 points [-]

If someone who is high status lacks status regulation emotions they will be nice to a person with low status who seeks help from them and treats them as an equal.

This is a nice differentiation that I can relate to well. I also do not seem to possess status regulating emotions either (at least enough to notice myself). And I do treat all people the same (mostly cheritable) independent of their status. Actually I discovered the concept of status quite late (Ayla and the Clan of the Cave Bear if I remember right) and couldn't make sense of it for quite some time.