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Lykurg  We're all living in Amerika  1yr ago (putanumonit.com)   4213 thread views

Why Are Women Hot? – Put A Number On It!

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Primarily relevant to here through the discussion of what people claim to find attractive vs. choose, but also considers various other measures of attractiveness. I dont agree with all these analyses but think its worth posting simply for considering the topic in a lot more detail then Ive previously seen.

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We don't live in a world where status is the only thing people care about and nobody cares about truth whatsoever (and if we did, your theory would be worse off because people do sometimes praise people in real life, how could you explain that?)

Right, sure, people do care a little bit about the truth. But rarely the people who speak and take status shots at each other. Mostly the spectators, because their status is not in play at that moment.

"He should get off social media because he's a socially inept autist and go back to playing with electric cars",

That is still just a blatant attempt to pull him down, as per my theory. I'm no fanboy, in fact I'm short tesla, but objectively Elon Musk is way above average in social skills. Notice the common phrase "I'm no fanboy". "fanboy" is clearly low status, and I had to deny it so I could praise Musk without taking a status hit.

First and foremost, status is supposed to reflect someone's actual objective value to society (or at least, to the people granting them status). That is the evolutionary mechanism for why it exists, and the selfishly rational reason for why people would give it.

The default assumption should be that it's a mechanism to sort out the sexual hierarchy as with primates or walruses, and has no moral effect. The high school hierarchy doesn't seem to be about contributing to society. To an atheist, the status in a religious community bears little relationship to the common good as he understands it. Likewise, Status points in our community are almost granted for the opposite of things that would gain points in a progressive community, so what objective value to society can we both be improving through our status hierarchies ? If both our communities contain workers and tax-payers, then we have contributed to the other's economic well-being through capitalism and the wealth hierarchy, but our respective status sorting has no such positive effect.

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