I don’t get it… there are so many more interesting things to say about fashion than “hey, maybe you’ll get better results if you dress up a little”. I hit “^F counter” and didn’t find a single reference to counter signaling! Or pink!
And there also seems to be nothing about the mechanisms that are being played with by manipulating fashion in traditional ways, like the use of halo effects or contrast effects to manipulate early impressions, or the use of similarity to cause liking when seeking to affiliate or persuade.
Color me boggled. I’d have thought that if LWers were going to strategize about the dark arts there would be more discussion of the cognitive theories that make such manipulation tactics effective. And I’d have thought there would have been more discussion of the ethical calculations that come up when trying to decide whether to defect on epistemic hygiene issues.
I don’t get it… there are so many more interesting things to say about fashion than “hey, maybe you’ll get better results if you dress up a little”. I hit “^F counter” and didn’t find a single reference to counter signaling! Or pink!
And there also seems to be nothing about the mechanisms that are being played with by manipulating fashion in traditional ways, like the use of halo effects or contrast effects to manipulate early impressions, or the use of similarity to cause liking when seeking to affiliate or persuade.
Color me boggled. I’d have thought that if LWers were going to strategize about the dark arts there would be more discussion of the cognitive theories that make such manipulation tactics effective. And I’d have thought there would have been more discussion of the ethical calculations that come up when trying to decide whether to defect on epistemic hygiene issues.