Michael Vassar once suggested:  “Status makes people effectively stupid, as it makes it harder for them to update their public positions without feeling that they are losing face.”

This is the opening sentence of an excellent article( a three minute read) titled High status and stupidity: Why?

In the article Eliezer Yudkowsky makes 10 hypotheses for why high status people are stupid, and several points on how to avoid the status-makes-you-stupid effect:

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