would be able to overcome things such as “image management” and “reputation”.
Why do you think this would be a good thing? Reputations are a valid concept, highly useful in social interactions. If you care about social interactions, you should (= it’s rational to) care about your reputation which leads directly to the image management.
The real issue is the trade-off between maintaining a desirable reputation and the costs of doing so (e.g. not asking questions for the fear of looking stupid).
You can choose groups with different status indicators and different ways of measuring reputation, but you probably can’t find any human communication (and I’d argue this applies intra-personally as well as inter-; you’re dealing with past-you and constraining future-you RIGHT NOW) that doesn’t involve status, power, and image.
Why do you think this would be a good thing? Reputations are a valid concept, highly useful in social interactions. If you care about social interactions, you should (= it’s rational to) care about your reputation which leads directly to the image management.
The real issue is the trade-off between maintaining a desirable reputation and the costs of doing so (e.g. not asking questions for the fear of looking stupid).
Some of us are exhausted of the status games of meatspace life and just want to dissect ideas.
You can choose groups with different status indicators and different ways of measuring reputation, but you probably can’t find any human communication (and I’d argue this applies intra-personally as well as inter-; you’re dealing with past-you and constraining future-you RIGHT NOW) that doesn’t involve status, power, and image.
No one forces you to play status games. If you don’t care, you don’t care so just dissect ideas and ignore the rest.
LessWrong was talking about other people being too concerned with their image. If you don’t have this problem, well, there is no problem, is there?