Social Status II: Cults and Loyalty — new Melting Asphalt post & response to @slatestarcodex http://www.meltingasphalt.com/social-status-ii-cults-and-loyalty/ …
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@KevinSimler@slatestarcodex If you'll indulge a bit of speculating :-) …What if by befriending a prestigious person a person could either…1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@KevinSimler@slatestarcodex … #1 become more prestigious themselves (and thus increase how many people admire them, and thus …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@KevinSimler@slatestarcodex … and thus gain whatever benefits that brings) or #2 be seen as a "path" to that origin prestigious person.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@reiver@slatestarcodex Those are all true, but second-order effects (prestige begetting more prestige). Before those make sense...1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
@reiver @slatestarcodex we need to understand how prestige is useful on its own, as a first-order phenomenon. That's what I'm struggling w/.
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