TheOtherDave comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 November 2011 05:38:37PM 5 points [-]

Speaking as an indifferent moderate, I suspect that well over 90% of the value extractable from discussions of applications of evidence-based reasoning to dating is extractable with significantly less effort from discussions of applications of evidence-based reasoning to job interviews, used car purchases, getting along with parents and children and neighbors and classmates and coworkers, and other social negotiations.

That said, I also suspect that the far greater fascination the dating-related threads have for this site than the other stuff has more to do with various people's interests in dating than with their interest in evidence-based reasoning, so I expect we will continue to have the dating-related threads.