30 Nov
2001
30 Nov
'01
1:07 a.m.
-- On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Wei Dai wrote:
But there is a scalar number attached to a person which deserves the name "reputation capital", namely his own judgement of what his reputation is worth.
On 29 Nov 2001, at 18:41, Jim Choate wrote:
People don't think of themselves as a '5'. Even Hitler thought he was the good guy in the fight.
He was, however, well aware of that everyone else was so deluded as to think otherwise. Thus he would correctly value his reputation capital as near zero. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG s07NDk+HLPwQqk0aT0IBcIx5EQfImpm5mb5DUKq 4lvjOPV14Sjf0RQg42giSGp3BgMoPgeanqdeb+rKy