If we can agree that how to think correctly is the more interesting topic, then possibly we can agree to explore whether or not the seduction community are thinking correctly by means of examining their evidence.
I would update only slightly from the prior for “non-rationalists are dedicated to achieving a goal through training and practice”.
EDIT: In case the meaning isn’t clear—this translates to “They’re probably about the same as most folks are when they do stuff. Haven’t seen much to think they are better or worse.”
An obvious improvement would be to instead use “non-rationalists are dedicated to achieving a goal through training and practice, and find a system for doing so which is significantly superior to alternative, existing systems”.
It is no great praise of an exercise regime, for example, to say that those who follow it get fitter. The interesting question is whether that particular regime is better or worse than alternative exercise regimes.
However the problem with that question is that there are multiple competing strands of seduction theory, which is why any critic can be accused of attacking a straw man regardless of the points they make. So you need to specify multiple sub-questions of the form “Group A of non-rationalists were dedicated to achieving a goal through training and practice, and found a system for doing so which is significantly superior to alternative, existing systems”, “Group B of non-rationalists...” and so on for as many sub-types of seduction doctrine as you are prepared to acknowledge, where the truth of some groups’ doctrines precludes the truth of some other groups’ doctrines. As musical rationalists Dire Straits pointed out, if two guys say they’re Jesus then at least one of them must be wrong.
So then ideally we ask all of these people what evidence led them to fix the belief they hold that the methods of their group perform better than alternative, existing ways of improving your attractiveness. That way we could figure out which if any of them are right, or whether they are all wrong.
However I don’t seem to be able to get to that point. Since you position yourself as outside the seduction community and hence immune to requests for evidence, but as thoroughly informed about the seduction community and hence entitled to pass judgment on whether my comments are directed at straw men, there’s no way to explore the interesting question by engaging with you.
Edit to add: I see one of the ancestor posts has been pushed down to −3, the point at which general traffic will no longer see later posts. Based on previous experience I predict that N accounts who downvote or upvote all available posts along partisan lines will hit this subthread pushing all of wedrifid’s posts up by +N and all of my posts down by -N.
I actually agree mainly with you, but am downvoting both sides on the principle that I’m tired of listening to people argue back and forth about PUAs/Seduction communities.
I would update only slightly from the prior for “non-rationalists are dedicated to achieving a goal through training and practice”.
EDIT: In case the meaning isn’t clear—this translates to “They’re probably about the same as most folks are when they do stuff. Haven’t seen much to think they are better or worse.”
That seems to be a poorly-chosen prior.
An obvious improvement would be to instead use “non-rationalists are dedicated to achieving a goal through training and practice, and find a system for doing so which is significantly superior to alternative, existing systems”.
It is no great praise of an exercise regime, for example, to say that those who follow it get fitter. The interesting question is whether that particular regime is better or worse than alternative exercise regimes.
However the problem with that question is that there are multiple competing strands of seduction theory, which is why any critic can be accused of attacking a straw man regardless of the points they make. So you need to specify multiple sub-questions of the form “Group A of non-rationalists were dedicated to achieving a goal through training and practice, and found a system for doing so which is significantly superior to alternative, existing systems”, “Group B of non-rationalists...” and so on for as many sub-types of seduction doctrine as you are prepared to acknowledge, where the truth of some groups’ doctrines precludes the truth of some other groups’ doctrines. As musical rationalists Dire Straits pointed out, if two guys say they’re Jesus then at least one of them must be wrong.
So then ideally we ask all of these people what evidence led them to fix the belief they hold that the methods of their group perform better than alternative, existing ways of improving your attractiveness. That way we could figure out which if any of them are right, or whether they are all wrong.
However I don’t seem to be able to get to that point. Since you position yourself as outside the seduction community and hence immune to requests for evidence, but as thoroughly informed about the seduction community and hence entitled to pass judgment on whether my comments are directed at straw men, there’s no way to explore the interesting question by engaging with you.
Edit to add: I see one of the ancestor posts has been pushed down to −3, the point at which general traffic will no longer see later posts. Based on previous experience I predict that N accounts who downvote or upvote all available posts along partisan lines will hit this subthread pushing all of wedrifid’s posts up by +N and all of my posts down by -N.
I actually agree mainly with you, but am downvoting both sides on the principle that I’m tired of listening to people argue back and forth about PUAs/Seduction communities.