Liron comments on Selfishness Signals Status - LessWrong

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

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Comment author: Liron 07 March 2010 11:14:42PM 1 point [-]

You are talking about a totally different component of status signalling. Selfishness is its own status-signalling component.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 08 March 2010 12:54:39AM * 0 points [-]

Tom McCabe said, but should have headlined:

I think you're confusing standard signaling and countersignaling a lot.

It's not entirely clear to me that you're talking about game theory, but if you are, it sure sounds like countersignaling to me.