How to Signal High Social Status

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The idea is to give people this experience of what does it really mean to have different social status. One woman who tends to project low social status came up to me after and told me that it was just mind blowing for her because she's never experienced what it's like to have people treat you like you have high social status. I view it as like, it's like instead of painting or sculpture, I create social experiments.

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What would happen if you chose to let ChatGPT control your life for a year? If products like ChatGPT help us (e.g.) to write something important, then should we give it credit as a co-author or merely act as though it's a high-powered Grammarly? How would you feel if you received a hand-written card from a romantic partner but later found out that everything they'd written had been authored by ChatGPT? How can we learn to get along with — and perhaps even form friendships with — people with whom we strongly disagree?

Dax Flame was one of the first YouTube stars. He acted in the movies 21 Jump Street and Project X, and has written three memoirs. After running out of money, he spent a few years working minimum wage jobs, but now at 31 he is attempting to become a full-time YouTuber again. Check out his YouTube channel, @Daxflame.

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