One problem is that there are political environments where people care about their allies signaling the right things. If you are in one of those environments you become untrustworthy if you don’t play the signaling game. This goes for moral mazes, party politics, and also various other social spheres.
When I was at Toastmasters one of the people was regularly giving workshops. After she was given a workshop one of the people that paid her complained that the car she was driving was too cheap for the status that would be expected for her role. In that environment is just not possible to easily opt-out of the signaling games.
One interesting question is whether people can be successful within the EA ecosystem without engaging in signaling EA things.
One problem is that there are political environments where people care about their allies signaling the right things. If you are in one of those environments you become untrustworthy if you don’t play the signaling game. This goes for moral mazes, party politics, and also various other social spheres.
When I was at Toastmasters one of the people was regularly giving workshops. After she was given a workshop one of the people that paid her complained that the car she was driving was too cheap for the status that would be expected for her role. In that environment is just not possible to easily opt-out of the signaling games.
One interesting question is whether people can be successful within the EA ecosystem without engaging in signaling EA things.