Social dark arts and plotting are one of the main themes of HPMoR and I think they should have more of a place on LessWrong. “Bad signalling” and negative-from-baseline dark arts failures are often pointed out, but not lost opportunities for manipulation.
Social dark arts and plotting are one of the main themes of HPMoR and I think they should have more of a place on LessWrong. “Bad signalling” and negative-from-baseline dark arts failures are often pointed out, but not lost opportunities for manipulation.
What are people’s thoughts on this?
These two discussions might be of some interest to you if you haven’t read them already.
Also, this and this.
But 3 posts and a thread are hardly satisfying, dammit, the Dark Arts are more important than this! We need a community of Dark Wizards!
.… unless the PUA guys are a community of Dark Wizards. Do they use their Arts for non-dating-related matters?