Long-term planning/deferred gratification. You were setting up a career as a source of status later in life.
You risk getting bad reputation if you don't care about your offspring and social environment. People care about their reputation to be socially included (because that enables access to sex, among other reward signals…
> Obviously, you're only saying that to get laid, so who can trust you? That's correct, but why would that reduce trust?
Either it's a flaw in the engineers (lack of social skills to admit a mistake accurately) or in the working climate (fear of unreasonable repercussion make the engineers defer disclosure of failure). I'm undecided.…
Quitting is embarassing, certainly often locally a downward slope on the status landscape.
Some individuals are perhaps purely intrinsicly motivated, but I think it's a very tiny minority. I also think there is a good chance that intrinsic motivation itself is a status enhancing adaptation, evolved by runaway…
Most normal people decide at some point that math is not for them in order not to embarrass themselves by claiming competence in a domain in which they are not confident at all. And hence, compared to nerds or seriously…
Would someone be willing to provide a brief summary for those who cannot watch the video at the moment?
Long-term planning/deferred gratification. You were setting up a career as a source of status later in life.
You risk getting bad reputation if you don't care about your offspring and social environment. People care about their reputation to be socially included (because that enables access to sex, among other reward signals…
> Obviously, you're only saying that to get laid, so who can trust you? That's correct, but why would that reduce trust?
Either it's a flaw in the engineers (lack of social skills to admit a mistake accurately) or in the working climate (fear of unreasonable repercussion make the engineers defer disclosure of failure). I'm undecided.…
Quitting is embarassing, certainly often locally a downward slope on the status landscape.
Some individuals are perhaps purely intrinsicly motivated, but I think it's a very tiny minority. I also think there is a good chance that intrinsic motivation itself is a status enhancing adaptation, evolved by runaway…
Most normal people decide at some point that math is not for them in order not to embarrass themselves by claiming competence in a domain in which they are not confident at all. And hence, compared to nerds or seriously…
Would someone be willing to provide a brief summary for those who cannot watch the video at the moment?