i think ppl sometimes say "countersignaling" to mean direction of signaling, sometimes also motive
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and it'sconfusing because ppl signal in multiple dimensions in practice. instead of only back/forth
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motive for not signaling is always a mix of not paying signaling cost + other things i guess
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anyway one interesting implication of model is countersignaling makes no sense unless one expects
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to be able to send other/future information to back up the countersignal. insteadof losing audience
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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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