scientism comments on My Greatest Achievement - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Swimmer963 12 September 2011 07:26PM

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Comment author: scientism 16 September 2011 06:48:18PM 0 points [-]

If I've read this correctly, you're saying you were 19 when this happened? That seems too young to be under such tremendous pressure to be in a relationship or to extrapolate anything meaningful from the success or failure of prior relationships.

Comment author: Swimmer963 19 September 2011 09:19:53AM 1 point [-]

Possibly. But I was worried by the fact that it seemed awfully tempting not to do relationships at all and just to declare myself off limits at the start. I didn't want to do that without definitive evidence. And I had been watching a lot of my close friends engage in casual or serious relationships for years. 19 is not that young.