khafra comments on A Rational Approach to Fashion - Less Wrong

19 Post author: lionhearted 10 October 2011 06:53PM

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Comment author: khafra 11 October 2011 04:15:24PM 1 point [-]

Contrasting this with

Next time you see someone who strikes a very good impression, stop and analyze a little bit. Note what they're wearing. If you want to strike that same first impression, go get something comprable.

How do we know what's too difficult for a beginner? Must we observe lots of people who strike a very good impression, and only seek items which are similar across the majority of the training set?

Comment author: dlthomas 11 October 2011 04:48:16PM 2 points [-]

This may work, but not (I think) as well as looking for failure modes of an item you wish to adopt. Who looks bad in it? Who looks good in it? Can you find why? Which is more likely to be you?