Roko comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

39 Post author: taw 16 July 2009 03:41PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 July 2009 06:28:11PM 15 points [-]

Barring full-scale banhammer wielding... probably not, I'm afraid.

Do please try to understand that for many men, lack of sex is sort of like missing your heroin dosage - at least that's the metaphor Spider Robinson used. Anyone in this condition is probably going to go on about it, and if you're not starving at the moment you should try to have a little sympathy.

(EDIT: Of course, blathering about "attractive women" on a rationalist website and thereby driving rationalist women away from your own hangouts, and ignoring the fact that what you do is ticking off particular women, is extremely counterproductive behavior in this circumstance; but that's probably meta-level thinking that's beyond most people missing a heroin dosage. Men missing sex seem remarkably insensitive to what actually drives away women, just as women missing men are remarkably insensitive to such considerations as "Where does demand exceed supply?")

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Comment author: Z_M_Davis 18 July 2009 12:57:04AM 6 points [-]

involved objectifying me.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 17 July 2009 08:43:23PM 3 points [-]

Rationality and negation(pickup works to a significant degree) are about as incompatible as religion and science.

Saying you could have expressed a proposition better isn't disagreeing with the proposition.