army1987 comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 February 2012 09:54:08PM 0 points [-]

Edit: Soporno's site also has this interesting article on guys who blame women for their problems.

I don't like that analogy, anyway. I don't think any fish would actually want to be caught by you in any circumstance, whether I'd rather women actually would want to have sex with me, as opposed to being ‘baited’ and ‘caught’ by me. (Would want ≅ CEV here; the overwhelming majority of women don't want sex with me right now (e.g. because they've never met me yet) but I guess this doesn't mean I'll never be able to have consensual sex with any of them short of unethically manipulating them. I hope that makes sense.)

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 February 2012 11:05:49PM 0 points [-]

The amount of sense it makes to me correlates pretty well with how well I understand the boundaries of categories like "unethical manipulation," "baiting," "catching," etc., are.

Unfortunately, I don't understand the boundaries of those categories very well.