wedrifid comments on The Power of Reinforcement - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 21 June 2012 04:17:41PM *  5 points [-]

Don't worry they have a back up plan. Someone just has to bring up the "negging" straw man. It dosen't matter in their minds that most PUAs don't teach that any more because newbies tend to mess it up.

"Deliberately behaving attractively is Rape!"

It's comparatively easy to start a flame war on that subject. I've argued against both sides at times, when their respective extremists started saying ridiculous things.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 June 2012 04:58:15PM *  7 points [-]

I'm rather frustrated because people refuse to believe that negging is a rather minor part of some approaches to PUA. When done right its playful teasing. This is why I brought it up.

Comment author: Manfred 22 June 2012 11:57:57AM 2 points [-]

I'm rather frustrated because people refuse to believe that negging is a rather minor part of some approaches to PUA. When done right its playful teasing. This is why I brought it up.

I suspect that, speaking literally, they do not refuse to believe that, and that you're disagreeing about something else.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 June 2012 10:32:57AM 0 points [-]

Actually David DeAngelo (the only PUA from which I've read a non-negligible amount of stuff) makes ‘cocky and funny’ the central point of his technique, IIRC.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 June 2012 11:28:48AM 2 points [-]

Actually David DeAngelo (the only PUA from which I've read a non-negligible amount of stuff) makes ‘cocky and funny’ the central point of his technique, IIRC.

Which, given that you have read a non-negligible amount of his stuff, you would know does not mean the same thing as negging (although you can do the latter while being the former if it happens to be appropriate). The "actually" is non-sequitur.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 June 2012 12:41:48PM 0 points [-]

(I don't remember him using the word “neg”, actually -- but it's been years since I read him.)

Comment author: Karmakaiser 21 June 2012 05:40:59PM 2 points [-]

I think I remember that. Weren't you replying to yourself over and over again taking different sides?

Comment author: wedrifid 21 June 2012 05:58:30PM 4 points [-]

Not that I recall, but if I did it sounds kind of amusing. :)