lavalamp comments on Should you try to do good work on LW? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lavalamp 07 July 2012 07:14:17PM 2 points [-]

Quote from the article in question:

And lest I sound chauvinistic, the same is certainly true of men. I hear a lot of bad things said about men (especially with reference to what they want romantically) that I wouldn't dream of applying to myself, my close friends, or to any man I know. But they're so common and so well-supported that I have excellent reason to believe they're true.

Does that really sound like someone who is doing a biased, partial update?

Comment author: private_messaging 08 July 2012 01:43:37AM 0 points [-]

The PUA's opinion on women was, nonetheless, not discounted for the typical mind fallacy. (Maybe the idea is that typical mind fallacy doesn't work across genders or something, which would be rather interesting hypothesis, but, alas, unsupported)