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Re:Mourning loss as a remote team by dahfizz on Saturday March 26, 2022 @07:01PM (#30816120)
It's not self evident that virtue _signals_ are evolutionarily advantageous. Actually being virtuous is what provides a benefit to your society / tribe / species.
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Re:Mourning loss as a remote team by anonporridge on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:13PM (#30816833)
Once a behavior has been socially locked in as "virtuous", then doesn't it create an incentive for individuals to signal that virtue?
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Re:Mourning loss as a remote team by Scarblac on Sunday March 27, 2022 @06:24AM (#30819164)
Not necessarily, no. Why would it?
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Re:Mourning loss as a remote team by lossolo on Sunday March 27, 2022 @07:35AM (#30819461)
Maybe because it's perceived as noble thing to do so people would signal that to others as benefit to themselves - to get higher status in a group.
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Re:Mourning loss as a remote team by leaflets2 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:14PM (#30823659)
Maybe depends on how dumb the others are -- the easier to fool, the more effective virtue signaling would be?

And, like @Scarblac wrote, sometimes it's a bad idea -- if the others see through it?

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