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#432 - Geoffrey Miller - An Evolutionary Psychologist's Dating Advice
Modern Wisdom
How to Fake Tharit Is Easy to Faxe Signals
The most reliable signals are the ones that are hard to fake, where there's some pretty strong connection between like the trait you're trying to show off. I did a whole book called spent ah in two thousand nine that was about conspicuous consumption. There it's more often a matter of, i'm going to buy and display some particular good or service that is objectively expensive in order to show off i can afford it. And so people seeing this stuff are naturally kind of skeptical. Like, if you see some wearing what looks like a rollaxe, but everything else in their life is kind of like shoody and cheap, then you figure that's probably fate. Whereas o someone's already
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