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Comment author: Yvain 07 July 2012 05:20:00PM *  12 points [-]

I've been avoiding this thread so far because I'm kind of uncomfortable with compliments, but luckily it's descended into insults and I'm pretty okay with those.

Yes, I have a blog. I write blog posts much more often than I write Less Wrong posts (although they're much lower quality and scatterbrained in all senses of the word). Sometimes I want to say something about rationality, and since I happen to know of this site that's totally all about rationality with a readership hundreds of times greater than my blog, I post it here instead of (or in addition to) my blog. I promise you I didn't just add the PUA reference for "a Less Wrong audience"; in fact, knowing what I know all these months later, I would have specifically avoided even mentioning it for exactly the reason that's happening right now.

I have written about 150 posts for Less Wrong, and about 1200 in my blog. Of those, I can think of three that tangentially reference pick-up artistry as an example of something, and zero that are entirely about PUA or which express explicit support for it. According to my blog tagging system, three posts is slightly more than "cartography" or "fishmen" (two posts each), but still well below "demons" (fourteen posts). I don't think it's unreasonable to mention a movement with some really interesting psychology behind it about 50% more than I mention hypothetical half-man half-fish entities, or a quarter as often as I mention malevolent disembodied spirits.

More importantly, now that I'm talking to you...why is your username "private_messaging"?