Btw, I should say the book is turning out to be as excellent as I hoped a book-length treatment of Hansonian signaling would be.
@robinhanson @KevinSimler next: your fitness signaling model is overly unidimensional & neglects the "matching" aspect of speaking, art, etc
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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We do repeatedly say what we focus on isn't the only thing going on. But I guess its easy to see us as overemphasizing it nonetheless.
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It would only take a few sentences to effectively introduce the matching aspect. You imply it when describing "signaling X" where X!=status
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And it supports your thesis - if X was about X, our expressions of X would not be so context & audience dependent. But they are.
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Sorry if I'm being dense here, but what do you mean by "matching"?
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We don't just signal a scalar "status" or "skill", but specific characteristics that potential allies can use to evaluate us as a partner.
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Contra to the bird nests signaling generic "fitness", our complex partnerships are also based on identifying good matches *for us*
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But like every signal, we are built to spoof it when it benefits us, say pretending to share your date's taste in X or timeline for kids
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