lucidfox comments on New Post version 1 (please read this ONLY if your last name beings with a–k) - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 27 July 2011 09:57PM

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Comment author: lucidfox 30 July 2011 05:00:41AM 0 points [-]

I sympathize with your distaste for taking apart love to see what it's made from

More like distaste for trying to reduce love to something it's not. You cannot reduce an abstract, complex facet of human experience to something simple and easily definable, otherwise you make yourself vulnerable to utopia plans that are doomed to fail.

People I showed lukeprog's original post to were universal in their reaction: "Wow, talk about neckbeardery".

As for PUA, I won't comment on that. If all you care about is one-night stands, then I guess you can be cynical about that. Actual love is a different matter entirely.

Comment author: Alicorn 30 July 2011 05:40:57AM 6 points [-]

People I showed lukeprog's original post to were universal in their reaction: "Wow, talk about neckbeardery".

You got multiple people to use that sentence? In fact, I will be nearly as impressed if multiple people independently used the word "neckbeardery".

Comment author: lucidfox 30 July 2011 06:07:55AM -1 points [-]

I said "to the effect of". I didn't mean literally the same wording.

Comment author: Alicorn 30 July 2011 05:01:11PM 1 point [-]

I said "to the effect of".

Where?

Comment author: lucidfox 30 July 2011 05:05:45PM 0 points [-]

...I didn't? Drat. Sorry.

This is what I get for not looking over my own comments before I post them. I'll be more vigilant in the future.