Proper posture tends to be more comfortable; surely this is a benefit to myself.
I also apologize to people when I have wronged them, not because they are higher-status than me, but because I do not like being a jackass.
The apology is a noble thing, and so is its rationalist cousin the mind-change.
I’m not making any prescriptive recommendations—I’m just elucidating one of the mechanisms of status evaluation.
As I read that I thought “Oh yes you are, [you’re outlining a path to winning]”
And then I felt like I had caught by the tail the error of confusing describing something vs. promoting something.
Proper posture tends to be more comfortable; surely this is a benefit to myself.
I also apologize to people when I have wronged them, not because they are higher-status than me, but because I do not like being a jackass.
The apology is a noble thing, and so is its rationalist cousin the mind-change.
I’m not making any prescriptive recommendations—I’m just elucidating one of the mechanisms of status evaluation.
As I read that I thought “Oh yes you are, [you’re outlining a path to winning]”
And then I felt like I had caught by the tail the error of confusing describing something vs. promoting something.