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@KevinSimler Are there two alphas? The most dominant and the most prestigious? Or is there correlation?
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@KevinSimler In humans I'd think there are two. Dominance gets you political power, admiration gets you money. -
@vgr Yes but even political power requires prestige. You can't lead (a political coalition) by dominance alone. - 3 more replies
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@vgr Only one alpha, based on dominance. Zahavi says to think of dominance as ordinal, prestige as cardinal/real-valued. -
@KevinSimler I think the cardinal/ordinal thing is key. Dominance is binary (can beat up/can't beat up). Ordinal can underwrite a currency - 2 more replies
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