As I mentioned in the other sub-thread, it’s really tiring to have you continually reframing what I say to make attackable arguments out of it. Unless your sole interest in LessWrong is to score rhetorical points (i.e., trolling), it’s a rather bad idea to keep doing that to people.
Note that the text you quoted from my comment has nothing to do with PUA. It is a portion of my evidence that your professed approach to personal development (i.e., trying things only if they cost nothing) is Not Winning.
On LessWrong, rationality equals winning, not pretending to avoid losing. (Or more bluntly: attempting to signal your intelligence and status by avoiding the low-status work of actually trying things and possibly being mistaken.)
It is better to do something wrong—even repeatedly—and eventually succeed, than to sit on your ass and do nothing. Otherwise, you are less instrumentally rational than any random person who tries things at random until something works.
Meanwhile, any time that you do not spend winning, is time spent losing, no matter how you spin it as some sort of intellectual superiority.
So, on that note, I will now return to activities with a better ROI than continuing this discussion. ;-)
As I mentioned in the other sub-thread, it’s really tiring to have you continually reframing what I say to make attackable arguments out of it. Unless your sole interest in LessWrong is to score rhetorical points (i.e., trolling), it’s a rather bad idea to keep doing that to people.
Note that the text you quoted from my comment has nothing to do with PUA. It is a portion of my evidence that your professed approach to personal development (i.e., trying things only if they cost nothing) is Not Winning.
On LessWrong, rationality equals winning, not pretending to avoid losing. (Or more bluntly: attempting to signal your intelligence and status by avoiding the low-status work of actually trying things and possibly being mistaken.)
It is better to do something wrong—even repeatedly—and eventually succeed, than to sit on your ass and do nothing. Otherwise, you are less instrumentally rational than any random person who tries things at random until something works.
Meanwhile, any time that you do not spend winning, is time spent losing, no matter how you spin it as some sort of intellectual superiority.
So, on that note, I will now return to activities with a better ROI than continuing this discussion. ;-)