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

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Comment author: Matt_Caulfield 07 September 2012 11:35:35PM 3 points [-]

And it actually offers a concrete solution to the problem of feeling creepy: hang out with more women.

Even if hanging out with women makes you grow less creepy over time, you're still inflicting your creepy self on them at the beginning. Being willing to do this for your own benefit is... creepy.

I'm still not convinced there's an ethical way out of the creepy trap. Is there any sound (not self-serving) argument against the idea that the best thing for creepy males to do is just go away?

Comment author: dspeyer 12 September 2012 12:32:14AM 5 points [-]

If noncreepiness can be learned fairly quickly under the right circumstances, and the decreepified individual can contribute to people around him significantly, then the benefit to the world at large of decreepification is larger than the cost.