undermind comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: undermind 14 April 2011 11:20:15PM 0 points [-]

The image is using sex to encourage people to learn and act rationally (I have no idea how that might work).

There's a grand tradition of women withholding sex for political reasons (usually to end a war), starting with Lysistrata. People resurrect this idea from time to time, and often achieve quite remarkable results.

Comment author: Fleisch 12 December 2011 09:58:15AM 6 points [-]

As an aside: The interesting thing to remember about Lysistrata is that it's originally intended as humorous, as the idea that women could withhold sex, especially withhold it better than men, was hilarious at the time. Not because they weren't allowed, but because they were the horny sex back then.