kalos comments on What Is Signaling, Really? - LessWrong

74 Post author: Yvain 12 July 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: kalos 13 July 2012 02:07:57PM 4 points [-]

This article made me think the same thing. Signaling is essentially gaming Bayes Theorem: providing what one believes others to count as evidence of appropriate strength to get them to update to a desired conclusion.