I've actually been discussing pickup on LessWrong for a while. I've been attempting to de-jargonize it, and translate the language into terms that are less likely to offend people. The result is a lot of dry and verbose comments in dark corners of other threads. Here is a haphazardly-organized index of my comments that either discuss pickup, or discuss related issues about ethics or personal development:

• Pickup and rationality: naive realism and the availability heuristic in pickup, rationalist practices in pickup communities

• Female preferences, and PUA models thereof: priors when approaching women the need for impersonal initial heuristics and stereotypes in social and sexual interaction, PUA vs. feminist views of women's preferences, flaws in the standard PUA model of women, how PUAs observe gender-typical women, and how they fail to model gender-atypical women, while gender-atypical women fail to understand gender-typical women that PUAs are modeling, greater female selectivity about behavior, creating models of human interaction from anecdotal data

• Sexual ethics: manipulation, questions to ask about whether sexual influence is ethical, buyer's remorse, "duping" women, deception, hiding romantic interest, compliance (and here, and here), entitlement and consent, hacking people's brains (and why that's a silly notion)

• What PUAs actually do: thoughts on the language of PUAs, beneficial life skills from studying pickup, relationship attitudes of PUAs, relationship screening skills, and results of people I've known

• Self, authenticity, and social development: the haves and have-nots of social skills, social problems and developmental delays of romantically challenged men, experimenting on people, epistemic rationality vs. social perception, the ethics and nature of self-enhancement / impression management, fake it 'til you make it, self-narratives and identity, and honesty

On my gender politics blog, you can also find:

• an explanation of some pickup techniques that may appeal to feminists, and further ethical discussion of them

• a collection of posts about research women's preferences in men, whether women "know what they want", and research on men's and women's sexual fantasies