Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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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. 

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