army1987 comments on Optimizing for attractiveness - Less Wrong

13 Post author: MrMind 31 May 2013 09:14AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 June 2013 09:14:01AM *  2 points [-]

You should realize that most women have zero interest in you.

ADB(partly)OC. If you mean “most women” literally, i.e. the majority of women (including e.g. menopausal ones), that's undoubtedly true, but if you mean something like the near-totality of the single women likely to hang out in the same places as you ... then that's probably mostly only the case for men who haven't even reaped for the very lowest-hanging fruits in terms of attractiveness. (And even if that does apply to you, alieving that just makes it worse -- though deliberately keeping aliefs and beliefs separate is an Advanced Skill.)

OTOH, at least if polyamory isn't widespread where you are, “zero interest in you” isn't the threshold you care about, “less interest in you than in the other guys available” is.