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Re:My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person by kubanczyk on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:57AM (#45967946)
> Physical attractiveness is a signal of reproductive fitness when it’s genetic, and not otherwise.

Nay, artificial physical attractiveness is also a signal of reproductive fitness. It isn't a given. It's the subject's genes that made a brain that was able to design (and to arrange to pay for!) the improved attractiveness.

It's not qualitatively different from brushing hair.

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Re:My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person by YurgenJurgensen on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:28PM (#45970826)
Yes, technically, having spare resources to devote to your own appearance is considered a positive signal, but it is an unreliable one, and often one not as valued by the people making the judgement. If there are many ways to signal wealth, a signal that has some intrinsic downside will lose its value if lots of people are sending the other wealth-signals.
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