inklesspen comments on Selfishness Signals Status - LessWrong

-1 Post author: Liron 07 March 2010 03:38AM

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Comment author: inklesspen 07 March 2010 06:50:28AM 2 points [-]

Proper posture tends to be more comfortable; surely this is a benefit to myself.

I also apologize to people when I have wronged them, not because they are higher-status than me, but because I do not like being a jackass.

Comment author: Liron 07 March 2010 07:33:43AM 3 points [-]

The apology is a noble thing, and so is its rationalist cousin the mind-change.

I'm not making any prescriptive recommendations -- I'm just elucidating one of the mechanisms of status evaluation.

Comment author: JamesAndrix 07 March 2010 08:37:08AM 0 points [-]

I'm not making any prescriptive recommendations -- I'm just elucidating one of the mechanisms of status evaluation.

As I read that I thought "Oh yes you are, [you're outlining a path to winning]"

And then I felt like I had caught by the tail the error of confusing describing something vs. promoting something.