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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Apr. 18 - Apr. 24, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 20 April 2016 03:08:09PM 6 points [-]

I've been parsing this as: You were incorrect in your prior understanding of what components make up X. ... Does this match up to how you parse his statements?

Nope. I parse them in terms of incentives. When Hanson says "X isn't about what you thought. X is about status", I understand it as "People are primarily motivated to do X not because of X's intrinsic rewards, but because doing X will give them status points".