Humans: it's status hierarchies all the way up. The main dishonesty with the piece is his portrayal of himself as the only bullshitter in the game. I bet the g

Humans: it's status hierarchies all the way up. The main dishonesty with the piece is his portrayal of himself as the only bullshitter in the game. I bet the girl that hugged him after he lost the Rhodes thing plagiarized her personal statement (or something). In many ways his essay, rather than a deep critique of human obsession with status signalling, was just a big status signal itself, since essentially the take home point was "look how fucking good at status signalling I am".