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Manfred comments on Cultural norms in choice of mate - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 10 July 2012 11:41:55PM 0 points [-]

I'm not totally sure what you mean by "wins" and "loses" here - you seem to mean increasing or decreasing some sort of relative attractiveness (to the average potential mate? To your definition of beauty, which seems universal?), which would then be zero-sum for whatever group it's normalized over.

But just because something is called winning, doesn't mean you can rely on it to describe human behavior - humans have a much more complicated set of motivations than "maximize relative attractiveness."