That would imply that optimizing signals for “muggles” automatically sub-optimizes for “wizards”.
I used to think that it didn’t matter how I dressed, because everyone who wasn’t dumb and superficial would just ignore my appearance and focus on other things in me. Then I noticed that I would feel an instinctive dislike towards people who looked bad, and an automatic liking towards people who looked good.
It was the other way round for me—I started instinctively disliking bad-looking people a few months after having started to optimize my appearance for dumb superficial people.
I used to think that it didn’t matter how I dressed, because everyone who wasn’t dumb and superficial would just ignore my appearance and focus on other things in me. Then I noticed that I would feel an instinctive dislike towards people who looked bad, and an automatic liking towards people who looked good.
Did you conclude that your initial belief was incorrect, or did you conclude that you were dumb and superficial?
I think both.
It was the other way round for me—I started instinctively disliking bad-looking people a few months after having started to optimize my appearance for dumb superficial people.