Ordinary Banana

anyway one interesting implication of model is countersignaling makes no sense unless one expects

to be able to send other/future information to back up the countersignal. insteadof losing audience

this is important - here's a dumb model:

countersignaling is eliding the #1 signal, countercountersignaling is eliding the #2 signal etc.

where the order of signals is most obvious and widely recognizable? not necessarily cheapest/most expensive

hmm and then maybe the more obscure signals are more discriminating at the top end

but maybe, by themselves, provide less good news about you to the average listener than the less obscure signals

so there's a tradeoff between strongly proving yourself to be at least 90th percentile good and weakly at least 99th