I do see the wisdom the caution on your side and that of the commenter on having material specifically tooled to one demographic with little hope for later expansion.
But.
I would still very much like to see an article of this kind (a rationalist approach to pickup) somewhere. I doubt very much that the PUA community is a very rational one. Yes they do have a strong culture of empiricism “the game is played on the field” but the community does have its glaring blind spots (mostly shameless selfpromotion) as well as seems particularly vulnerable to gurus and snake oil salesmen as well as individuals too willing to accept comfortable truths, opting to rather use the new knowledge to delude themselves instead of doing the hard work.
This isn’t even touching some of the misogyny.
So in the noble spirit of intellectual curiosity and personal gain I do implore that you post the full article somewhere (I assume considering the comments people made that you edited it away, see here if I’m wrong) sans the direct references to the article being ever made for LW.
Seconded. There are obviously a lot of people who think they would benefit from reading this article, so if its not suitable LW material, write it and post it somewhere other than LW. This seems to meet all the objections raised in this thread so far as I can see.
I do see the wisdom the caution on your side and that of the commenter on having material specifically tooled to one demographic with little hope for later expansion.
But.
I would still very much like to see an article of this kind (a rationalist approach to pickup) somewhere. I doubt very much that the PUA community is a very rational one. Yes they do have a strong culture of empiricism “the game is played on the field” but the community does have its glaring blind spots (mostly shameless selfpromotion) as well as seems particularly vulnerable to gurus and snake oil salesmen as well as individuals too willing to accept comfortable truths, opting to rather use the new knowledge to delude themselves instead of doing the hard work. This isn’t even touching some of the misogyny.
So in the noble spirit of intellectual curiosity and personal gain I do implore that you post the full article somewhere (I assume considering the comments people made that you edited it away, see here if I’m wrong) sans the direct references to the article being ever made for LW.
Seconded. There are obviously a lot of people who think they would benefit from reading this article, so if its not suitable LW material, write it and post it somewhere other than LW. This seems to meet all the objections raised in this thread so far as I can see.