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#374 - Will Storr - How To Play The Status Game

Modern Wisdom

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Is Your Conscience Helping You Predict?

Our conscience is basically an internal enforcement mechanism for things that we predict our culture would reward or punish in terms of status. It's like a pain signal, i gess, in a way, warning you that something's wrong with your behavior. And it also punt in, know, it also, orvesly, works retrospectively too. That's the kind of signal from your, from your kind of status game playing cognition, saying, don't do that again.

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