"What distinguishes ‘good’ virtue signaling from ‘bad’ virtue signaling isn’t just the reliability of the signal. It’s the actual real-world effects on sentient beings, societies and civilizations"
Always thrilled to publish @primalpoly in @Quillettehttps://quillette.com/2019/09/02/virtue-signalling-may-annoy-us-but-civilization-would-be-impossible-without-it/ …
Robin Hanson has said some interesting stuff about self-signaling.