Another thing is that I have the impression that LW is becoming more and more about signaling(I got this from Robin Hanson’s writings) rationality as opposed to actually working on it. That is, what counts is making an elaborate post with sophisticated reasoning in order to impress, regardless whether it can or will be actually implemented. Maybe useful if you are bulding a GAI, not so much if you want to improve yourself.
Not more and more. You’re just becoming more socially aware. You’ve taken the Red Pill, now the trick is to learn to live with what you see, without becoming embittered. Because, as the name suggests, LessWrong has slightly less signalling bullshit relative to information than average for humans. That’s the best you can expect, now make the most of it.
Virtually nothing Roissy writes about game is new or original, including his reference to the Matrix, which I’ve seen used about 5 years ago. He just succeeded in popularizing it to new audiences, and linking it with conservative politics. Roissy is not an important or representative figure in the larger community.
As a note of caution to those not familiar with the name, Roissy might be construed as an example of the ‘worst advocates’ of PUA by many. He is a talented writer and at least thought provoking, arguably quite insightful, but Tyler Cowen described him as EVIL and he is not for the faint of heart. Anyone tempted to google the name is probably at least owed a NSFW warning (purely text based NSFW) and possibly a NSFTEO (The Easily Offended) warning.
I stopped reading his stuff when I realized it was having a
negative effect on how I think of women, sexuality, and my
own sexual identity. (I am a hetero male).
Funny that he does so partially for a set of reasons that are falling into disfavour on LessWrong.
My question is which parameter value he incorrectly estimates; after all, he is not just evil he is also imprudent in missing the joys of monogamy and matrimony. I believe that most of all, he underestimates his transparency to his observers in real life. I sometimes call this the endogeneity of face to thought and thus his face must be somewhat evil too. Since his strategies cause him to spend time only with women he can fool, he doesn’t correctly perceive how he is wrecking his broader reputation; the same is probably true for the rest of us as well.
This also piqued my interest:
(But IS he evil? Is there not a theorem which suggests that rule-governed sweet young things will in fact overinvest in the rule and, if you could selectively induce “rule disengagement,” human welfare might rise? But no…that theorem was refuted some time ago.)
Not more and more. You’re just becoming more socially aware. You’ve taken the Red Pill, now the trick is to learn to live with what you see, without becoming embittered. Because, as the name suggests, LessWrong has slightly less signalling bullshit relative to information than average for humans. That’s the best you can expect, now make the most of it.
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Or he just watched The Matrix. I don’t think Roissy can take credit for that particular expression.
Virtually nothing Roissy writes about game is new or original, including his reference to the Matrix, which I’ve seen used about 5 years ago. He just succeeded in popularizing it to new audiences, and linking it with conservative politics. Roissy is not an important or representative figure in the larger community.
As a note of caution to those not familiar with the name, Roissy might be construed as an example of the ‘worst advocates’ of PUA by many. He is a talented writer and at least thought provoking, arguably quite insightful, but Tyler Cowen described him as EVIL and he is not for the faint of heart. Anyone tempted to google the name is probably at least owed a NSFW warning (purely text based NSFW) and possibly a NSFTEO (The Easily Offended) warning.
I stopped reading his stuff when I realized it was having a negative effect on how I think of women, sexuality, and my own sexual identity. (I am a hetero male).
Funny that he does so partially for a set of reasons that are falling into disfavour on LessWrong.
This also piqued my interest:
I’m not quite sure what he is referring to.
Who on earth is Roissy? Never heard of him.
Roissy.
The title of his blog, “Roissy in DC” alludes to another Roissy of literary significance.
Roissy talks about “game” which has been de-facto banned from LW because it causes the site to go all ga-ga about gender politics.