Re:Signaling as a Service
by wilg on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:53PM
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"Signaling" has never struck me as a particularly useful model of human behavior. It feels like just a repackaging of cynicism in more "objective" language.
This article doesn't seem to have a lot of real insight, other than to loosely (and half incorrectly) justify various beliefs and misunderstandings the author has about selected social interactions. I guess that's fine, but doesn't seem particularly useful.
Re:Signaling as a Service
by lukifer on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:00AM
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I don't think signaling need be cast through a cynical lens. A great deal of signaling is explicitly honest signaling, expending resources to demonstrate integrity and form stable trust bonds.
This article doesn't seem to have a lot of real insight, other than to loosely (and half incorrectly) justify various beliefs and misunderstandings the author has about selected social interactions. I guess that's fine, but doesn't seem particularly useful.