childofbaud comments on Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter - Less Wrong

137 Post author: Cosmos 17 March 2011 08:12PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (166)

Sort By: Best

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 18 March 2011 01:53:35AM 17 points [-]

PUA stuff targets the middle of the bell curve. Of course it looks silly to intelligent people.

Comment author: HughRistik 18 March 2011 07:45:24AM 16 points [-]

This. Pickup at the right of the bell curve looks a bit different. It involves more puns, for instance.

Comment author: childofbaud 18 March 2011 02:24:05PM 6 points [-]

Pickup at the right end of the bell curve looks like this:

"If I were to ask you out, would your answer to that question be the same as the answer to this one?"

(Disclaimer: I didn't make it up. I saw it somewhere else on this site, long time ago.)

Comment author: taryneast 20 March 2011 09:57:54AM 2 points [-]

looks silly to me. ;)

Comment author: Johnicholas 20 March 2011 01:39:29AM 1 point [-]

Smullyan invented this "coercive logic" in "The Riddle of Scheherazade".

Comment author: Sniffnoy 20 March 2011 04:58:33AM * 2 points [-]

Pretty sure this is much, much older than that.