MrMind comments on Optimizing for attractiveness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 04 June 2013 08:38:03AM 4 points [-]

High status, enough fame to broadcast across many possibilities, and sufficiently good Harry Potter fanfiction to convey a sense of my personality.

Huh, I see. May I ask you if those girls just proposed them to you, or did you actively searched and seduced them? I understand that's a fairly personal question, I'm just trying to understand if I can copy a portion of your behaviour.

Currently down to 2 local and 1 East Coast girlfriend, btw.

Poor Eliezer :p

This pathway is not tremendously duplicable, but it was easier for me than learning to dress well or studying light-side pickup because I needed to do the work for other reasons anyway.

Yes, I've read HPMOR up to chapter eighty-something and I really liked it, maybe one day you should tell other people who want to start writing how to do it correctly.

f you can lose weight, you should obviously do so. If you haven't yet tried low-carb and Shangri-La, both seem relatively obvious things to attempt

I will certainly try, with even more focus. But I doubt Shangri-la can work for people who have been overweight for a long time, their leptin loop is far too off-track to be changed by such weak stimuli. I don't remember where but I've read that hypothalamus can develop leptin resistance.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 June 2013 08:46:49AM 4 points [-]

I brute-forced the other side of the problem (status/fame/impression) hard enough that I never learned to search and seduce. Sometimes contemplating this makes me feel very lazy, but heck, brute-forcing the other side of that took a lot of work. It was not the minimum-effort pathway if that had actually been the primary goal.

I was overweight for a long time before I lost 20 pounds on Shangri-la, after which it never worked again, but they were a nice 20 pounds to lose.