lukeprog comments on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roland 04 October 2011 07:49:04PM 6 points [-]

Did you ever do a boot camp or infield training with pick up artists or receive any kind of in-person coaching or did you train by yourself?

Which of the seduction community books did you read if any at all? Which do you recommend, besides the ones you have listed in the article?

Comment author: lukeprog 11 October 2011 09:05:41AM 5 points [-]

I trained by myself. I consumed lots of material. I guess I would recommend the first 10 episodes of Pickup Podcast, Savoy's Magic Bullets (the title is ironic), and probably anything by Brad P. I'm not sure there's anything that is particularly thoughtful or scientifically serious while also being compact and immediately useful. Also, people are at different levels of functioning on different dimensions, so what will be most impactful for a particular person is hard to predict.

Alternatively, skip the pickup world and just do Toastmasters and then go to lots of parties and clubs and social gatherings and watch what people with high mating intelligence are doing.