lukeprog comments on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance - LessWrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 02 October 2011 07:01:25AM 21 points [-]

No, it was in a car, and I had written it up in a 20-page document I printed off, but then I recited it from memory anyway. I'm kinda glad I don't have that document anymore.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 October 2011 05:04:15AM 35 points [-]

This is the exact reverse, in every way, of Erin collaborating with a friend of hers to write up an elaborate argument tree for the job of persuading me that she ought to be my girlfriend, which she ended up not actually needing to use.

She also doesn't have that document any more. I so wanted to see it...

Comment author: Jolly 20 October 2011 02:54:09AM 9 points [-]

grin that was fun, and incidentally how I first found out about you (Eliezer). I don't remember actually formally writing said document though, so much as just reasoning out the pro/cons of various approaches.

I'm glad it worked out though! :)

Comment author: Solvent 12 October 2011 09:50:02AM 1 point [-]

How the hell do people lose these things? I keep all these documents so I can publicly distribute them after say a one year time period, to the general amusement and enlightenment of all. Ask her to write it again.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 October 2011 08:17:26AM 19 points [-]

Wow! A 20 page essay on "why I'm breaking up with you"? That's just... brutal!

Comment author: Alejandro1 02 October 2011 02:47:03PM 39 points [-]

I'm picturing it with an impressive array of references at the end, and side remarks on The Neglected Virtue of Scholarsip.

Comment author: Aleksei_Riikonen 04 October 2011 02:11:17AM *  18 points [-]

Wow! A 20 page essay on "why I'm breaking up with you"? That's just... brutal!

And obviously the title should have been:

"In Which I Explain How Natural Selection Has Built Me To Be Attracted To Certain Features That You Lack"

:D

Comment author: lukeprog 03 October 2011 01:26:24AM *  6 points [-]

I take no responsibility for anything Luke-2007 did. Different guy. :)

Comment author: JenniferRM 04 October 2011 02:14:41AM 32 points [-]

Out of curiosity, do you expect Luke-2015 to take responsibility for anything Luke-2011 does?

Comment author: wedrifid 04 October 2011 02:20:19AM 10 points [-]

Only the good stuff! :)

Comment author: tristanhaze 29 January 2012 04:45:27AM 3 points [-]

I wonder if this principle works in the case of a murder which rapidly changes the murderer. (Later that day, they may bear no responsibility.)

Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2013 08:23:09PM 0 points [-]

I am surprised that she didn't cut you off way before you got to the one-hour mark...

Comment author: Desrtopa 03 March 2013 08:31:04PM 0 points [-]

My guess is that it would have been like forcing herself to look away from a train wreck.

Comment author: lessdazed 02 October 2011 04:45:16PM 0 points [-]

Did you destroy all of the copies?

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