...while not being quite sane enough to actually notice you’re driving away the very
gender you’re trying to seduce from our nascent rationalist community, and
consequentially shut up about PUA… In the end, PUA is not something we need to be
talking about here, and if it’s giving one entire gender the wrong vibes on this
website, I say the hell with it.”
Very unfortunate that we are suggesting censoring a rather important and fertile topic
that fits bang in the middle of the overcomingbias/lesswrong framework because:
PUA related discussions are certainly of enormous practical importance; it offers
enormous insight into the working of attraction, though I dare say folks at lesswrong
may be able to push the frontier way more particularly with their knowledge of
evolutionary psychology etc.
PUA related discussions are all the more important and relevant to lesswrong
since attraction is an area that conventional wisdom doesn’t say enough about, in part
due to political correctness.
One thing I have really liked about lesswrong is its manner of addressing
politically incorrect questions with honesty; and not having a long list of taboo topics.
PUA tells us a number of uncomfortable things about the human condition,
which are true. If Alicorn does like that she would be better off understanding what the
reality is and probably figuring out if she can come up with some kind of mass
consciousness raising exercise that would ensure that PUA methods are useless and
that “Nice guys” without a “game” are seen as attractive (I think it will be a mammoth
task to beat the internal attraction hardwiring of people though). At any rate, closing
herself to the reality of the world, calling it offensive serves no purpose.
Where do we go from here? We can ban all hard discussions relating to race,
religion, IQ differences, inherent difference in people’s abilities, inherent mean
differences in group abilities etc. We can turn this blog into something with trite and
obvious posts or one that simply lies and obfuscates the truth on sensitive topics in the
name of political correctness. In that case, this blog would just not be worth reading.
With a ban on this kind of discussion, I think one part of lesswrong and the
rationality community here just died...
Very unfortunate that we are suggesting censoring a rather important and fertile topic that fits bang in the middle of the overcomingbias/lesswrong framework because:
PUA related discussions are certainly of enormous practical importance; it offers enormous insight into the working of attraction, though I dare say folks at lesswrong may be able to push the frontier way more particularly with their knowledge of evolutionary psychology etc.
PUA related discussions are all the more important and relevant to lesswrong since attraction is an area that conventional wisdom doesn’t say enough about, in part due to political correctness.
One thing I have really liked about lesswrong is its manner of addressing politically incorrect questions with honesty; and not having a long list of taboo topics.
PUA tells us a number of uncomfortable things about the human condition, which are true. If Alicorn does like that she would be better off understanding what the reality is and probably figuring out if she can come up with some kind of mass consciousness raising exercise that would ensure that PUA methods are useless and that “Nice guys” without a “game” are seen as attractive (I think it will be a mammoth task to beat the internal attraction hardwiring of people though). At any rate, closing herself to the reality of the world, calling it offensive serves no purpose.
Where do we go from here? We can ban all hard discussions relating to race, religion, IQ differences, inherent difference in people’s abilities, inherent mean differences in group abilities etc. We can turn this blog into something with trite and obvious posts or one that simply lies and obfuscates the truth on sensitive topics in the name of political correctness. In that case, this blog would just not be worth reading.
With a ban on this kind of discussion, I think one part of lesswrong and the rationality community here just died...