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Lumifer comments on Status - is it what we think it is? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 31 March 2015 02:47:15PM 1 point [-]

"Status" is a... multifaceted word with many different (but related) meanings in different contexts.

I think my crude definition of status would be "respect that you get by default before the specifics of the situation come into play". Or, in LW terms, the prior for respect due to this person before the evidence becomes apparent.