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Signaling: The Language Peacocks, Gazelles, and Humans All Speak
your brain is going to spend a lot of time figuring where you are in the hierarchy. Then it’s going to govern your behavior, often without your conscious permission, based on where it concludes you belong. The only way a mammal can choose itself is by fighting a mammal above it in the hierarchy and winning, even if this means maiming or killing. So
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To identify and reward the users who have contributed value to the platform—a form of signaling, which those users can parlay into public reputation.
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems
Every day, each of us takes social cues from our friends and colleagues that can be easily be misinterpreted and provoke a mimetic reaction. Our “default mode” is to respond to violence with violence, however small and passive-aggressive the provocation might’ve been.
Luke Burgis • The Twitter Ban: Handshakes and Emails
