wedrifid comments on A Sense That More Is Possible - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 April 2011 07:23:04PM 1 point [-]

The posters on lesswrong who claim that opposition to pickup on lesswrong is due to women being uncomfortable with explicit analysis of social reality,

or (relatedly) that pickup is a uniformly altruistic enterprise (wrt sexual partners).

Everyone who does make the claim that pickup is uniformly altruistic is clearly and obviously mistaken. And can look forward to a world of disappointment when they realise their fairytale ideas about romance are absurdly naive. Most people learn the hard way during their teens. (Although nerds tend to take longer on average.)