Oscar_Cunningham comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - LessWrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 25 November 2012 08:54:18PM *  11 points [-]

1) Some women react positively to catcalling. Even if one in a hundred, then it would be enough, because the cost is low. As an analogy, receiving spam is also annoying, but a tiny fraction of humans react by sending their money, which rewards the spammers.

Note that the catcallers only need to believe that it's worthwhile; it needn't actually be.