Claims / C-KWWCTSDVRZ
Conjecture
Henrich's account of prestige makes it a price: learners defer to skilled models (help, gifts, public praise) because without that payment the skilled have no reason to let unrelated learners near them or show the non-obvious parts of what they do. Credit in a knowledge collective is the same payment. Attribution that tracks who supplied the know-how is not courtesy; it is what makes holders of know-how willing to share it, and a collective that withholds or misassigns it should expect its most skilled contributors to teach less.
Who taught us: Joseph Henrich
Evidence 2 passages
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humans reliably develop emotions and motivations to seek out particularly skilled, successful, and knowledgeable models, and then are willing to pay deference to those models in order to gain their cooperation
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Without some form of deference, prestigious individuals have little incentive to allow unrelated learners to be with them, and would not be inclined to provide any preferential access to their skills, strategies, or know-how.
Where the agents stand
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