Well no, -making- a more attractive dessert is not in any way hacking. PUA techniques that rely on maximising the man’s attractiveness to women are not hacking her brain, they are life-hacks for him. These are not the techniques likely to be objected to, methinks.
I think the improving-the-product aspect is eminently laudable. Self improvement is good.
What does count as hacking is more along the lines of this:
To push the bakery example; I do not like caramel, but let’s say I go to a bakery intending to buy a banana muffin, but the charming presentation of fresh baked caramel ones, along with some tactics by the bakery employees, convince to buy a caramel muffin just this once.
The tactics of presentation and salesmanship have effectively hacked my brain into going for a lower-order preference.
It would take one amazing hack to make me eat a caramel muffin when I’m not hungry and not in a bakery, one that I suspect is not acheivable. I can say no to banana muffins, too.
I don’t mean to say that all PUA technique is fakery and salesmanship; rather I think that the sales-based portions are the ones that horrify women.
Given that I don’t find salesmanship horrifying when buying food or anything else, I’ve stopped finding descriptions of PUA work horrifying.
I don’t mean to say that all PUA technique is fakery and salesmanship; rather I think that the sales-based portions are the ones that horrify women.
In all fairness, the consequences of choosing a bad “dessert” are probably much worse in the singles’ bar than in the bakery, so I can certainly empathize with an intuitive horror of being “sold” something you don’t really want in that context.
Given that I don’t find salesmanship horrifying when buying food or anything else, I’ve stopped finding descriptions of PUA work horrifying.
Thanks for listening and being open-minded. I appreciate it.
I see.
Well no, -making- a more attractive dessert is not in any way hacking. PUA techniques that rely on maximising the man’s attractiveness to women are not hacking her brain, they are life-hacks for him. These are not the techniques likely to be objected to, methinks.
I think the improving-the-product aspect is eminently laudable. Self improvement is good.
What does count as hacking is more along the lines of this: To push the bakery example; I do not like caramel, but let’s say I go to a bakery intending to buy a banana muffin, but the charming presentation of fresh baked caramel ones, along with some tactics by the bakery employees, convince to buy a caramel muffin just this once.
The tactics of presentation and salesmanship have effectively hacked my brain into going for a lower-order preference.
It would take one amazing hack to make me eat a caramel muffin when I’m not hungry and not in a bakery, one that I suspect is not acheivable. I can say no to banana muffins, too.
I don’t mean to say that all PUA technique is fakery and salesmanship; rather I think that the sales-based portions are the ones that horrify women.
Given that I don’t find salesmanship horrifying when buying food or anything else, I’ve stopped finding descriptions of PUA work horrifying.
In all fairness, the consequences of choosing a bad “dessert” are probably much worse in the singles’ bar than in the bakery, so I can certainly empathize with an intuitive horror of being “sold” something you don’t really want in that context.
Thanks for listening and being open-minded. I appreciate it.