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gwern comments on Link: Toward Non-Stupid, Non-Blank-Slatey Polyandry - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 09 September 2012 03:53:35PM 0 points [-]

I never said the number had to be positive. It's a complex topic, though, so I couldn't say with tremendous confidence that the number is negative - it's not a pure positional game, but has elements of positive, zero, and negative-sum games.

Comment author: evand 10 September 2012 10:20:34PM 0 points [-]

I would expect that the number of women (and men) who overinvest in attractiveness is positive. Ditto the number who underinvest. Both questions are interesting, imho.