Advice about how to look better seems trivially useful and reputable… Overall, I find your claim that the intersection of palatable dating advice and useful dating advice is empty extremely implausible. What else would Clarisse Thorn’s “ethical PUA advice” be?
At the very least there should be some reasonably effective advice that’s only minimally unpalatable or whatever, like become a really good guitarist and impress girls with your guitar skillz.
Regarding PUA and evolutionary psychology: I don’t see how a self-selected population that’s under the influence of alcohol, and has been living with all kinds of weird modern norms and technology, has all that much in common with the EEA.
Regarding PUA and evolutionary psychology: I don’t see how a self-selected population that’s under the influence of alcohol, and has been living with all kinds of weird modern norms and technology, has all that much in common with the EEA.
Good point that I hadn’t thought of. And also, most mating in the EEA would be with people that you’d had and expect to have extended interactions with—this is probably very different from trying to pick up strangers.
Advice about how to look better seems trivially useful and reputable… Overall, I find your claim that the intersection of palatable dating advice and useful dating advice is empty extremely implausible. What else would Clarisse Thorn’s “ethical PUA advice” be?
At the very least there should be some reasonably effective advice that’s only minimally unpalatable or whatever, like become a really good guitarist and impress girls with your guitar skillz.
Regarding PUA and evolutionary psychology: I don’t see how a self-selected population that’s under the influence of alcohol, and has been living with all kinds of weird modern norms and technology, has all that much in common with the EEA.
Good point that I hadn’t thought of. And also, most mating in the EEA would be with people that you’d had and expect to have extended interactions with—this is probably very different from trying to pick up strangers.