army1987 comments on Pareto improvement in gym norms: Spread the word! - Less Wrong

-10 Post author: RolfAndreassen 28 July 2013 02:04AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 July 2013 08:43:24AM *  3 points [-]

It's been nearly a decade since I last used a machine in a gym, but I have a vague recollection that things there worked the way you're proposing. I might be wrong, though.

If anyone challenges you, give them a quick lecture on economics - this has the added benefit of making you popular with the opposite sex.

ISTM that stuff like that only works with people with very high IQ and/or Openness to Experience. (That's not necessarily a bad thing, though.)

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 29 July 2013 04:03:54PM 1 point [-]

My tongue was particularly firmly in my cheek when writing that sentence. Still, if you encounter the sort of person-of-appropriate-gender who would actually stop and listen to your explanation, that would be a very strong signal of worthwhileness.