wedrifid comments on Calibrate your self-assessments - LessWrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 March 2012 01:52:36PM 0 points [-]

It is not my claim that the entire population of the world has a clinically diagnosable anxiety disorder. That would be crazy (and given how 'disorder' is used, only a hop and a step away from outright oxymoronic).

I do maintain the things that I have actually stated.

Comment author: Dmytry 20 March 2012 01:57:42PM 0 points [-]

"Far more than either current reproductive maximisation incentives or our own practical hedonistic interests would assign."

Who's 'we' here anyway? Mankind? I'm sure >95% can get beaten up for hitting on strangers. 5% ? There's still the status loss from rejection.