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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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The Best Way to Rebel Against the World Is Not to Rebel, Right?

The safest, most reliable way to win against the mob is to mostly be in the mob. You know, choose carefully ways to deviate that it doesn't even know that it's being overturned. So when you have enough prestige and fundamentally just you're right about something, you can win there. That's in some sense the most standard conservative advice that will ever give us, but it's not wrong.

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