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.
What's your number?
People don't think of themselves as a '5'. Even Hitler thought he was
the good guy in the fight.
'good', 'bad', etc. are most certainly NOT scalar.
> The idea of reputation capital solves an important problem
It solves nothing, it adds a redundent factor that does nothing but
mislead.
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