Comments on: We don’t like to admit signaling motivations

By: My Name is Eli

My Name is Eli — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:36:27 +0000

Can we hold hold off on the social ranking and public display of worth for just a little bit more?

I’ve got this faking-it-till-I-make-it plan going, and I just need a bit more time.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:51:27 +0000

Gaikokumaniakku says:

Here is a crazy idea. Give every member of society a simple rank. Military ranks go from E0 to E9 or whatever, then O1 to O15 or whatever. They could invent a similar system of ranks for civilians

Unified ranks for non-military officials were done in Russian Empire when it was rolling downhill. Presumably it satisfied some vanities, but not clear whether this had much real effect at all, one way or another.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:29:09 +0000

Gaikokumaniakku: “Here is a crazy idea. Give every member of society a simple rank. Military ranks go from E0 to E9 or whatever, then O1 to O15 or whatever. They could invent a similar system of ranks for civilians, and then society could operate with customs and courtesies appropriate to rank.”

Chinese.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:13:32 +0000

Phileas Frogg says:

So let me get this straight, if I have an expansive vocabulary THAT is the nominal representation of my intelligence, but the piece of paper with my intelligence abstracted into numerical form is somehow the REAL form of my intelligence?

Well, the people who can perform well on tests and make up similar tests say so.

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:58:16 +0000

Here is a crazy idea. Give every member of society a simple rank. Military ranks go from E0 to E9 or whatever, then O1 to O15 or whatever. They could invent a similar system of ranks for civilians, and then society could operate with customs and courtesies appropriate to rank.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:40:37 +0000

So let me get this straight, if I have an expansive vocabulary THAT is the nominal representation of my intelligence, but the piece of paper with my intelligence abstracted into numerical form is somehow the REAL form of my intelligence? And athletically…dunking on you in a game of 1 v 1 in a complete blowout is merely representational, but if I have great health markers from my doctors office, then I’m the superior athlete?

This nerd thinks showing is telling, and telling is showing, lol.

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:34:35 +0000

Way back when we used to call this “status symbols.” In the drawing office for example only the senior had a high chair and the other draughtsmen had to stand. Like many other animals, humans have always competed for position in the social hierarchy. Publishing your tax return sounds like a rather bloodless way of getting one up on the rest. And there’s a practical objection. A guy can’t walk up to a strange girl at a bar and say,”Here’s my tax return.”

By: McChuck

McChuck — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:58:59 +0000

The person proposing this has never met actual people, has he?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 04:29:14 +0000

This is more embarrassing than bukkake.