at HUN several folks had fun t-shirts which I quite enjoyed seeing and was glad that they wore I, OTOH, only ever wear one shirt: Carhartt model K87 black T I used to wear "fun" shirts when younger; not sure what changed. hypothesis 1: fun -> serious 2: my history is my brandhttps://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1188448757676990464 …
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2/ I lean towards #2. I think people (reasonably) spend more time on external signalling when they're young bc they have not yet built up a track record. When you're 16 you need to wear the emo t-shirt to let people know the real you. At 32 they can just see your cutting scars
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3/ At 19 home on leave you need to wear your uniform or a T-shirt talking about how you're a patriot and you've served, death from above, one brotherhood, combat tested, blah blah blah. At 45 folks just know you're a solid guy who can be counted on, vaguely recall you served.
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4/ I could signal to everyone I meet via clothing, but my wife already knows and the dogs don't care...https://twitter.com/Isegoria/status/1188452530755461120 …
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5/ someone -
@robinhanson ?@bryan_caplan ?@tylercowen ? - made the observation that mindsets change over age in exactly the way we'd expect from different get / hold power strategies. Young turks gonna young turk, talk about need for change. Old guard gonna talk about wisdom. >2 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
6/ and it strikes me that signalling via clothing dovetails into this.
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7/ Concur! But in a historic environment (or even current one) younger you are, higher the percent of people you meet who are strangers. So it makes sense that young spend more effort displaying their brand. Oldsters inherit their own prev investmenthttps://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1188453693538131968 …
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8/ tired: the idle old / rich are living off the interest from their stocks and bonds wired: the idle old / rich are living off the interest from their reputational investments 40 years earlier
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Hanson totally missed an opportunity to harvest some of the reputational gains from inherited memetic wealth right there.

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11/ "If I signal further it is because I stand on the reputational investments of giants"
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12/ This also dovetails with an observation
@sonyasupposedly made a few days ago about "how to build a rep on twitter". It was a good thread she pointed to, if taken DESCRIPTIVELY, but if taken as a recipe it seems sociopathic. https://twitter.com/Wu1fAxe/status/1188455567960035328 …ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,
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