bogus comments on Using Evolution for Marriage or Sex - Less Wrong

17 Post author: diegocaleiro 06 May 2013 05:34AM

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Comment author: bogus 06 May 2013 06:03:55PM *  1 point [-]

I agree, generally. Generally speaking, if you have good traits, you are better off showing them[1]; but you should keep your preferred "mode" in the foreground. This exploits the fact that the line dividing "short term" from "long term" relationships is often fuzzy, while avoiding a number of problems.

[1] An important exception: males should not show some purported 'long-term traits' when they are trying to optimize in the short-term. But this only applies to a few debatable things that are more like attitudes than genuinely 'good traits' persay.