Human status

One of the audience members said that, via gossip, he had no problem finding out what others were doing in his field. If anything was important, he’d hear about it via gossip, and if someone didn’t have enough status to get people to gossip about his work, it couldn’t be important enough for him to attend to.
Today, a physics academic told me (and a few others) that it isn’t a problem that physicists can’t be persuaded by contrarian arguments published in respectable peer reviewed physics journals, as they won’t read or consider it if it goes against their prior expectations. He said what really matters is your status, not whether you’ve published or where. Gossip about high status people gets their arguments considered even without publication, and no one else’s arguments matter anyway. Low status people can contribute by working out the details of high status people’s arguments.Our Default Info System: Status And Gossip By Robin Hanson · March 16, 2021 10:05 am. overcomingbias.com
Human status is correlative, although not absolutely with animal status. Human status acts can be seen as systematic games.
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Our Default Info System: Status And Gossip By Robin Hanson · March 16, 2021 10:05 am 
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Games people play; Bias; Human ape
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