that one can signal without fearing being mistaken for a mere level 1 signaler?
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another confusing factor i think is whether one is trying to cause the most positive belief or the
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most accurate belief or a mix. like the peanut allergy examplehttps://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/421740892391612417 …
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if you'reallergic to peanuts you want people to believe so, even if they will think a bit less of u
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so this is a case where making people think less of you isn't out of countersignaling motives
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not that a peanut allergy is a good reason to think less of people but you get the point probably
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and i think there are other things like peanut case that are more confusable with countersignaling
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i haven't looked at the linked math so maybe i'm saying wrong things though
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if signal is result quality, adding separate signal of low effort also different than countersignal
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in reality signals aren't sent once&then processed, they're stored/recalled/propagated at will
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(not meaning to say that this is always important and/or that economists don't understand it)
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this is important - here's a dumb model:
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countersignaling is eliding the #1 signal, countercountersignaling is eliding the #2 signal etc.
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where the order of signals is most obvious and widely recognizable? not necessarily cheapest/most expensive
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hmm and then maybe the more obscure signals are more discriminating at the top end
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but maybe, by themselves, provide less good news about you to the average listener than the less obscure signals
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so there's a tradeoff between strongly proving yourself to be at least 90th percentile good and weakly at least 99th
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and picking the "weakly at least 99th" end is evidence that people already know you're at least 90th percentile good
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so if you can pick just one signal, you send the obscure one andit's like countersignaling inthat you don't send the main one
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