TheOtherDave comments on post proposal: Attraction and Seduction for Heterosexual Male Rationalists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 February 2011 04:35:41PM 3 points [-]

There have been a number of highly regarded "instrumental rationality" posts about how to effectively achieve one's goals. These are mostly clustered around productivity (akrasia, et al), but not exclusively. I can't see why posts about how to effectively socialize would be off-topic.

That said, there is enough reflexive "Dark Arts" rejection around here that you might get more community support if you turn it around and frame it as how to best resist the techniques that other people might use to effectively socialize with you, and instead remain isolated and uninfluenced.

I'd be saddened if that turned out to be true.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 06 February 2011 06:25:37PM *  4 points [-]

That said, there is enough reflexive "Dark Arts" rejection around here

Well the posts that deal directly with the dark arts don't get anywhere near this negative a reaction. As such I believe the issue is not dark arts per se but rather that they are discussed in a way that by implication lowers the status of women.