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

54 Post author: lukeprog 04 October 2011 02:45AM

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Comment author: Nisan 04 October 2011 12:42:22AM 3 points [-]

Would an actual photo of Luke and Alice be better?

Comment author: wedrifid 04 October 2011 01:15:21AM 20 points [-]

Would an actual photo of Luke and Alice be better?

Now I'm imagining a picture of Luke with a redacted silhouette of a woman entitled "woman I am not attracted to any more". There are arrows pointing to various lacking physical attributes lacking from an evolutionary psychology perspective, complete with sketches of what they should look like... Perhaps with a supplemental craziness vs hotness chart or two.

Comment author: tenshiko 04 October 2011 01:31:33AM 3 points [-]

Okay, this would actually be really epic and I would support it assuming it didn't have the whole fracking white background creating cutouts thing going on.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 October 2011 03:12:11AM 6 points [-]

I think this could easily lead to an outside observer interpreting this very negatively. I believe the relevant vague catch-all term is "objectifying". The entire approach of a silhouette for the female and an actual picture for the male could easily send very negative signals to a lot of people.

Comment author: handoflixue 07 October 2011 01:23:12AM 2 points [-]

Agreed, but the idea still made me laugh :)