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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, January 11-17, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 18 February 2016 08:46:15PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure whether "social culture" is a good label. Not every social interaction by non-nerds is heavily focused on status.

There's "authencity culture" whereby being authentic and being open is more important than not saying something that might lower someone's status.