> If people optimize to gain status by donating and being vegan, you can’t trust people who donate and are vegan to do moves that cost them status but that would result in other positive ends.
How are people supposed to know their moves are socially positive?
Also I’m not saying to make those things the only markers of status. You seem to want to optimize for costly signals of “honesty”, which I worry is being goodharted in this conversation.
> If people optimize to gain status by donating and being vegan, you can’t trust people who donate and are vegan to do moves that cost them status but that would result in other positive ends.
How are people supposed to know their moves are socially positive?
Also I’m not saying to make those things the only markers of status. You seem to want to optimize for costly signals of “honesty”, which I worry is being goodharted in this conversation.