Yeah, I wrote some years ago about how status wasn’t a status wasn’t a special feature that humans attribute to each other for contingent social psychology reasons, but rather falls out very naturally as an instrumentally convergent resource.
Yeah, when I consider that, it does undercut the claim that evolution shaped us to optimize for status. It shaped us to to want things, and also to find strategies to get them.
A great counterpoint!
Yeah, I wrote some years ago about how status wasn’t a status wasn’t a special feature that humans attribute to each other for contingent social psychology reasons, but rather falls out very naturally as an instrumentally convergent resource.
Yeah, when I consider that, it does undercut the claim that evolution shaped us to optimize for status. It shaped us to to want things, and also to find strategies to get them.