I was talking to a younger friend about this a while back—your Internet presence is increasingly more valuable than your real-life presence. Which is weird and dystopian and I don’t really know how to think about it. But it’s true, and I think people who are like,  I don’t need the Internet , don’t understand the extent to which much of the p

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And so if you were signaling online, and then you’re getting all this applause, and people are treating you with high status online… And then you get offline and people can’t see any of these signals — because you’re just a kid in school and they don’t see your cool videos, or whatever it is. And you’re treated a lot worse — and not necessarily bec

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