Sarokrae comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sarokrae 08 September 2012 03:41:45PM *  2 points [-]

I think you're misunderstanding my point. I agree that status has a wider social meaning, but I was specifically referring to status in the context of one man approaching one woman, and saying that in that case it is usually at least monotonic with attraction. A well-respected academic has status within his field, but is still low-status in male-female interaction terms if he is sufficiently uncharismatic.

Edit: oops. My earlier comments didn't make this at all clear.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 08:45:47PM *  1 point [-]

I don't think Athrelon in the comment that started this thread meant "status" in the latter sense.

Comment author: Sarokrae 09 September 2012 12:16:03AM 1 point [-]

Fair enough. Guess I was arguing a completely different point then.

Now, where did that thread go which was about the better way to fix creepiness being how to teach people to get/signal more status, rather than what not to do... Pretty sure there they're using this definition.

(Gah, words are hard.)