I downvoted it. This was already discussed in depth on the site a while ago. See the fall-out posts and discussion related to the PUA stuff (googling for PUA site:lesswrong.com should give you most of it) Basically, the answer to your statement (and then some!) is contained in that thousands of words worth of discussion, and I thought your comment was little more than being a likely trigger for a discussion that’s already been beaten into the ground here, even though that wasn’t your intention and your intention was in fact exactly opposite.
I will state that summarizing this discussion for postery’s sake (in the wiki) so we can stop having it is a good idea.
Yes, I read those discussions, and those posts, which is why I’m surprised it’s still generating threads this large on unrelated articles.
When reading, I noticed that this particular thread had a button labeled “load more comments (106 replies)”, and that struck me as very wrong for a comment I would have labeled “off-topic” at best.
I downvoted it. This was already discussed in depth on the site a while ago. See the fall-out posts and discussion related to the PUA stuff (googling for PUA site:lesswrong.com should give you most of it) Basically, the answer to your statement (and then some!) is contained in that thousands of words worth of discussion, and I thought your comment was little more than being a likely trigger for a discussion that’s already been beaten into the ground here, even though that wasn’t your intention and your intention was in fact exactly opposite.
I will state that summarizing this discussion for postery’s sake (in the wiki) so we can stop having it is a good idea.
Yes, I read those discussions, and those posts, which is why I’m surprised it’s still generating threads this large on unrelated articles.
When reading, I noticed that this particular thread had a button labeled “load more comments (106 replies)”, and that struck me as very wrong for a comment I would have labeled “off-topic” at best.