gwern comments on Article about LW: Faith, Hope, and Singularity: Entering the Matrix with New York’s Futurist Set - Less Wrong

31 Post author: malo 25 July 2012 07:28PM

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Comment author: gwern 26 July 2012 09:16:44PM 21 points [-]

If your goals are to have much more romping in the bedroom, they have done well here. However many of these techniques speak to me of cults, the ones with the leader getting all the brainwashed girls.

The irony is that I recall a few years ago reading someone criticizing LWers to the effect that 'I would be more impressed by their so-called rationality if they were losing their virginity or getting laid more, than the stuff they focus on'. So, the NYCers are apparently doing just that and the response is this?

(Truly, damned if you do and damned if you don't.)