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Richard Hanania Returns: How Status Competition Created the Culture War

From the New World

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The Differences Between Optimization and Climbing

The most, the easiest way to think of this is just like skills, basically, right? So yeah, you have some skills that are like optimization that are just like taking a plus b or like taking two factors and saying how can I get all of C. And then there's an instinctive one where you react in whatever way your brain thinks is best. These are all different traits that people can have but they're not really seen as separate until very recently. Like Corrado would describe both of these as combinations; he doesn't see much difference between them.

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