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That's interesting.
Of course, it makes sense that signalling exceptional intelligence stops seeming like a worthwhile strategy when everyone in the community is perceived as equally or more intelligent, but it's noteworthy and admirable that what replaced it was giving up on signaling altogether and concentrating on actual self-improvement, rather than the far more common (though less useful) tactic of signalling something else that was more reliably high-status in that community.
That's pretty cool. Good for you!
You may have knowledge about this particular case I don't, but unless we know XFrequentist is telling the truth rather than self-decieving (or we know that there is a high probability of such) we shouldn't give him positive reinforcement.
Agreed (although still appreciated, TOD)! I could easily be wrong.
The evidence I would call on to support my belief are that:
I can think of alternate explanations for all these observations though. I'll ask folk at our next meetup whether they think this is accurate, and I'll also ask a few people that have known me well for the past few years. The outside view is clearly more reliable here.