Status And Social-Skill Bias

The following table gives medians of 3 LLM estimates re % relative importance for short term success in 5 areas of life of these 4 factors:(A) status: looks, $, fame, family, connections, credentials, charisma, wit, etc.(B) social skills: at flattering, befriending, projecting power, making people feel heard, etc.;(C) drive: energy, stamina, persistence, effort(D) judgement: good choices re topic of your leadership, eg ideas, arguments, slogans, designs, plans, group strategies.The last two rows show % poll responses re which of these folks would like to matter more, or less, for success. As you can see, we strongly agree that we most want judgement, and least want status, to matter, and in-between we more prefer drive over social skills. As politics and culture are where judgement now matters least, these are the areas we should most want to reform.Status matters so much for success in our world now because in we so often just trust high status folks to run stuff, without much…