We may be talking across from each other by using different terms.
To me PUA is one very simply algorithm: attempt pickup → analyze if it worked → improve pickup routine → goto start. PUA is the treating of relationships and dating as if it was a science or skillset instead of an interaction with individual human being. That’s all there is to PUA. It’s nothing but a learning algorithm used by a human and backed up by the data you collect.
The statement that “PUA is true” means that humans can be modeled in relationships the same way that humans can be modeled economically for economics to be true. The statment “PUA works” means that this algorithm will get you success and it will give you increasing probabilities of success per attempt.
There are some universally adopted techniques and a couple of common models, but that’s to be expected when you’ve got thousands of people all doing the exact same thing repeatedly. In general, I’d say the vast majority of those models and techniques are accurate and efficacious. If you have specific objections to PUA half truths, feel free to throw them out. Saying that PUA is nothing but half truths feels as general as saying that economics is nothing but half truths because it can’t model economic agents perfectly. I need specifics.
As for “dark” techniques, I have no idea to what you refer. The darkness I was talking about in PUA is the the danger of dehumanizing others and treating women as commodities. You stop looking at women as a person and start looking at them as potential lay #32. There are no dark techniques that cause harm to the target; they’re harmed because you have a one night stand and then never call them again (as their best case scenario). The darkness isn’t a side effect; it’s the direct effect. Achieving your goal by any other technique wouldn’t spare them the pain.
We may be talking across from each other by using different terms.
To me PUA is one very simply algorithm: attempt pickup → analyze if it worked → improve pickup routine → goto start. PUA is the treating of relationships and dating as if it was a science or skillset instead of an interaction with individual human being. That’s all there is to PUA. It’s nothing but a learning algorithm used by a human and backed up by the data you collect.
The statement that “PUA is true” means that humans can be modeled in relationships the same way that humans can be modeled economically for economics to be true. The statment “PUA works” means that this algorithm will get you success and it will give you increasing probabilities of success per attempt.
There are some universally adopted techniques and a couple of common models, but that’s to be expected when you’ve got thousands of people all doing the exact same thing repeatedly. In general, I’d say the vast majority of those models and techniques are accurate and efficacious. If you have specific objections to PUA half truths, feel free to throw them out. Saying that PUA is nothing but half truths feels as general as saying that economics is nothing but half truths because it can’t model economic agents perfectly. I need specifics.
As for “dark” techniques, I have no idea to what you refer. The darkness I was talking about in PUA is the the danger of dehumanizing others and treating women as commodities. You stop looking at women as a person and start looking at them as potential lay #32. There are no dark techniques that cause harm to the target; they’re harmed because you have a one night stand and then never call them again (as their best case scenario). The darkness isn’t a side effect; it’s the direct effect. Achieving your goal by any other technique wouldn’t spare them the pain.
You’re right. I’m referring to PUA as in this memeplex
That’s a list of lingo the people who do that use. I’m missing your objections, unless you just hate lingo.
It’s the conclusions that people draw,as opposed to the general experimental method that you outlined