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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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Is There a Difference Between Originality and Originality?

I would define authenticity as basically a negative of conformity. I think people who are inventing things are often going through a performance that they've practiced and gotten good at just the way everybody else is for other things. But when you ask individuals under what situations they would see themselves as most authentic, what they tend to say is situations where they would feel most admired or most admiring themselves.

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