What Twitter can teach us about identity signaling | with Paul Smaldino
Game Changer - the game theory podcast
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The Costs of Signalling Everything Overtly
Demae: The ability to assort on attitudes is what we call mawfully um and then people interact. In the model, we just make two simple assumptions. One is that similarity is always better to be similar. And also, being aware of dissimilarity impedes coordination. So if you can always pair up with people you like and avoid people you dislike, overt signalling is always going to be better. But where covert signalling becomes adaptive is when you sometimes have act with people whom you didn't pick. If an knowing about each other's differences will impede coordination. After that, there's just sort of success bi us copying, where the individuals with higher pay offcs are more
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