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

61 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 March 2009 01:15AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 April 2011 06:34:40AM 11 points [-]

One who is satisfied cannot be seduced.

Erm, this statement is clearly false as soon as you reflect on it?

Personally, if I was going to come up with a clever rationalization for BFDs, it would be something like, "Any boyfriend who keeps her locked up in a closed relationship must clearly be a patriarchal bastard."

Comment author: Vaniver 08 April 2011 10:19:04PM 0 points [-]

Erm, this statement is clearly false as soon as you reflect on it?

Are you skilled at either seduction or being satisfied?

I have reflected upon it, and it still seems to me to be true. Perhaps rewording it will reveal our disagreement; what do you think of "Satisfaction is the best defense against seduction"?

Comment author: ata 08 April 2011 10:23:06PM *  0 points [-]

Personally, if I was going to come up with a clever rationalization for BFDs, it would be something like, "Any boyfriend who keeps her locked up in a closed relationship must clearly be a patriarchal bastard."

Only allowed if the BFD actually personally uses that justification in the course of persuading a woman to leave her boyfriend for him.

('cuz I like the mental image, that's all.)