XFrequentist comments on More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA - Less Wrong

66 Post author: XFrequentist 10 September 2010 12:25AM

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Comment author: XFrequentist 10 September 2010 03:22:56AM 1 point [-]

Actually, I don't think it's just arguing about labels (although I agree that that's pointless, and I also agree with everything else you wrote).

I want to steal the PUA model, so I don't think I can avoid mentioning it here. I could be wrong though, and either way it might be better to coin a new name eventually. If the discussion turns out to be all about labels I might just suck it up and take all mention of PUA out.

Comment author: MartinB 10 September 2010 03:35:43AM 0 points [-]

What /is/ the PUA model you refer too? I am not sure if you use that term for the magic ingredient that PUAs seem to have to get successes or if you have a complete model of some method that only PUAs devised and no-one else has copied yet.

In either cases I have some bad news.

But now I sound all critiqy in my comments, instead I should just lean back and check back in a while what develops. I like the general idea. Everything with practical application sounds and a chance to improve ones live sounds good to me.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 September 2010 03:34:18AM 6 points [-]

The distinctive thing about the PUA approach is the amount of experimentation.

Comment author: soreff 12 September 2010 06:46:48PM 1 point [-]