I like the general direction here. The exact wording of the post feels… a little wish-fulfilly to me.
Three different things that seem noteworthy:
I think there are some reasons to think “just doing your thing and letting people decide how much to trust you” should work at least pretty well. It’s possible that it actually works better than actively strategically signaling, but that’s a pretty strong claim.
Separately, there are reasons that “just doing your thing and letting people decide how much to trust you” contributes to a kind of epistemic commons.
Thirdly, I sure do have a strong aesthetic preference for this way of doing things.
But I think the arguments for those are fairly separate, and I’m worried about bundling them up the way they seem to be here.
I like the general direction here. The exact wording of the post feels… a little wish-fulfilly to me.
Three different things that seem noteworthy:
I think there are some reasons to think “just doing your thing and letting people decide how much to trust you” should work at least pretty well. It’s possible that it actually works better than actively strategically signaling, but that’s a pretty strong claim.
Separately, there are reasons that “just doing your thing and letting people decide how much to trust you” contributes to a kind of epistemic commons.
Thirdly, I sure do have a strong aesthetic preference for this way of doing things.
But I think the arguments for those are fairly separate, and I’m worried about bundling them up the way they seem to be here.