Decius comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

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Comment author: Decius 09 March 2013 12:07:08AM 1 point [-]

Sometimes I find that signaling low status is usefull. Sometimes I don't intrinsically care about status and signaling low status is more instrumentally valuable. Sometimes I am low status and signal honestly.

And sometimes status is efficiently distributed and what is instrumentally useful to a tribe is also high status.