But what I’m interested in is increasing the feeling of status, or to be more precise, minimizing the felt lack of status
Do you believe that felt lack of status is completely uncorrelated with others’ willingness to cooperate? I have to admit that I care about my own status a whole lot less than many seem to, but I can’t tell if this is just counter-signaling or a true reflection of the idea that status is complicated and intertwined with a lot of other real interpersonal relationship things, making it vary widely among individuals.
A more direct question about your model: would it be easier to just literally wirehead? Electricity to the part of the brain that seeks status?
Do you believe that felt lack of status is completely uncorrelated with others’ willingness to cooperate?
I think it’s strongly correlated, and causally bidirectional: higher status leads to better performance (for mental health reasons) leads to higher status.
The way I see it is that high status is the baseline condition and lack of status is a malfunctioning that makes one function below their capacity. In the same way that having to go to the toilet does.
would it be easier to just literally wirehead? Electricity to the part of the brain that seeks status?
If we could, yes. How many years until it’s commercially available?
Do you believe that felt lack of status is completely uncorrelated with others’ willingness to cooperate? I have to admit that I care about my own status a whole lot less than many seem to, but I can’t tell if this is just counter-signaling or a true reflection of the idea that status is complicated and intertwined with a lot of other real interpersonal relationship things, making it vary widely among individuals.
A more direct question about your model: would it be easier to just literally wirehead? Electricity to the part of the brain that seeks status?
I think it’s strongly correlated, and causally bidirectional: higher status leads to better performance (for mental health reasons) leads to higher status.
The way I see it is that high status is the baseline condition and lack of status is a malfunctioning that makes one function below their capacity. In the same way that having to go to the toilet does.
If we could, yes. How many years until it’s commercially available?