Comment author: Brian7 07 December 2008 12:40:43AM -3 points [-]

You could recruit some rationalists among PUAs. They wholeheartedly share your sentiment that "rational agents must WIN"

Interesting. As a reasonable approximation, approaching women with confidence==one-boxing on Newcomb's problem. Eliezer's posts have increased my credence that the latter is correct, although it hasn't helped me with the former.

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Comment author: Brian7 02 November 2008 04:01:00PM 1 point [-]

As some guy once said, small is beautiful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_is_Beautiful