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[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

Responsibility being demanded. Which shows that human public opinion is not great, and being prestigious causes less cooperation than being able to coerce people independently of prestige, which is what power is.

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

Elevated Power Promotes Prosocial Behavior More Than Elevated Status - Britt Hadar, Almog Simchon, Michael Gilead, Pamela K. Smith, 2026 https://t.co/15gRoCpOSA this shows that power isn't antisocial, but status is.

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

Status is more like anticooperative than antisocial, wrong wording. No wonder, as power carries responsibility and status doesn't, though in the study they among other things did dictator games, suggesting that power independent of others opinion is more cooperative regardless of

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

Is my impression of status as powerful, unproductive, underabused by its posessors, restrained by formal power and by leaders, and determined in substantial part by early age via genetics, parentage, likes and dislikes and introversion, correct or not??

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

What determines social status change other than age? Almost every socially relevant trait is either immutable (looks, intelligence, sex, age, ethnicity, the overall inherited component of social status) or downstream from social status

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

By acting shy, I mean introversion, conflict avoidance and/or caring too much about others opinions and loss avoidance. Those things are largely downstream of upbringing, partly genetic and dependent on social status at early ages.

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@Baalren If this is true, that indeed leaves no room for the "morality as evolutionary strategy in equilibrium" theory. But how to call the folk who are reliable without ever checking if it's good for them?

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@Baalren Thus permitting for an infinity of possible interpretations of the same experience regardless of attempts to verify. Wrong premises can lead to correct conclusions but not the other way round.

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

Is logical positivism wrong? The proposition is that every piece of knowledge is either derived from experience, or just a matter of definitions consequences in a language, formal or natural. So to disprove it, there would have to be a priori knowledge independent of particular

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@Baalren Correct by accident, or due to the premises correctness, and if nothing in reasoning is independent of experience, than no two beliefs are contradictory, instead you can prove they aren't, thus never knowing if given not Y, premise X is wrong, or the idea that Y follows from X.

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@Baalren I remember you wrote on your blog once that there are immortal souls visiting here and that there were three of them I think, three "pings". Maybe you are one?

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@Baalren Do you think you yourself aren't an undead foreigner?

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@JulianWaller In the essay, he argues democracy inevitably is unstable towards not being run on formal rules, which changes it from self-government like a bridge club to an institution where 60%"shareholders" extract from 40%, that comes to act as a gang with inevitable violence. Very short.

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@JulianWaller I would suggest "the state is not a stable eleemosynary institution" from August 2007, while he didn't write a concise summary of his views, this one is short and gives a reason why he thinks democracy is bad and argues for why is the reason a real trait of democracies.

[Sleepwalker @Webfarercurious]

@JulianWaller @to48864 Did this arrangement work?