Is that where that’s from?
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Or maybe it just doesn’t work on children? No one knows because no one’s ever tried it.
If you could program a slaying weapon, what is the one group of people that no-one in their right mind could possibly ever want to kill? I’d say that group would be children too young to speak. Anyone going after them is certainly an absolute psycho.
I agree to an extent. He does remind me of people I’ve known in the rationalist movement. It’s worth pointing out that him blurting out the wrong thing at the wrong time isn’t just an annoying character trait, it’s probably symptomatic; I’d speculate he doesn’t really consider other people as fellow actors in his decision making. If there was someone who did not make efforts to bond with people around him, would you be willing to trust him with power over their happiness?
That’s a non hypothetical question, I’d love to hear a rebuttal.
True. Nevertheless I’ve always felt common sense to be a hazy subject. I’d prefer to use the words “personal judgement”. They can use their personal judgement ;) to prepare against the risks in order to get the benefits of the course. Or not. Because this stuff sounds pretty similar to what beginner PUAs are taught, those guys hold courses too, although you might end up paying way more.
That’s a valid point. Women who have read about the pickup artist techniques report that the techniques still work on them even when they’re aware the person is using them. On the other hand, SWIM says that being aware of various techniques has helped him guard against HR methods on the basis of “Oh, now he’s moving into stage x, next he’s going to...”. SWIM would say that it depends to what degree you’re predisposed against the person using them.
Be aware that some techinques are more obvious than others. Some are really obvious when you know they exist, but also really obscure, so you won’t know they’re being used unless you’ve read about it before.
Oh I agree it’s dangerous. The world is filled with dangerous ideas and pointy bits, we’re all adults here and can make our own decisions without child friendly warnings over everything.
That’s his way of communicating, I took it as a joke personally.
If you’re suspecting that he’s a stooge for scientology, say it outright. I didn’t really think it was that strange that he mentioned the little details; not to mention that all of us here are pretty well versed in scientology by now.
Wow, so if I say yes, then what? Will we go back and forth for a hundred pages in a good old fashioned internet flame war? No thanks, I have better uses of my time. ;)
We know that scientology is bad, no one here’s in any doubt about their legitimacy or thinks they might be some cool people to hang out with; conversely that course is sounding pretty good, which is what he was praising. Complaining until he adds a warning on the end, saying we shouldn’t take it is pretty silly considering he obviously intends us to take the course or something similar to it.
And so what? He’s entitled to his opinion about scientology too, as well as their courses.
Precisely. Especially since, while a lot of us have jobs where we either work for ourselves or our bosses just don’t care… some of us have those repressive nightmare jobs where our bosses google for us regularly outside of work hours.
That’s a fair point; conversely, there are entire websites (or so I’ve heard) dedicated to obvious warnings, and there are already people making fun of how obvious his warning is. So I’m thinking his pre-emption was pretty close to spot on.
Keep in mind that even techniques expressly designed for improving social skills can result in “social robots” when misapplied. And this is the first time I see de-facto hour-long staring contests (from a cult indoctrination course, no less) mentioned as a way to improve eye contact skills.
Which techniques and can you link us?
What about those successful people that failed many times to get where they are?
How do we know how good the supporting evidence is if we have no way to assay it for ourselves? At that point, aren’t we just forced to take poster’s word for it? That’s not even as good as evaluating their performance because it’s completely results independent. A lot of the time, logical fallacies just come up as an excuse for the poster to say whatever they want without having to back it up.
Assuming that we could see how people implement their own theories, we would have a feedback loop; however, many theories inside less wrong operate inside a vacum. We used to depend on logic to evaluate theories, then we stopped and moved into the scientific method, because pure logic doesn’t work outside of a closed environment. It only works when you have a solid grasp of the intial variables.
That’s rationalizing groupthink. IMO you should speak the truth as best you can, and change your estimated truth based on the arguments you read and the evidence presented, not on guesses about what your audience is willing to listen to.
From your complaint it sounds like they’re forcing you to march in lockstep with everyone while chanting slogans; compared to being asked to back up your assertions.
One of the practical exercises pickup artists use to break their shyness is to open conversations with thirty women on the street; in fact, being able to start conversations and ask out strange women in a non-bar setting is part of what a good pickup artist is expected to be able to do (in Tokyo there’s even a name for it, “nampa”). I’d expect a pickup artist to know many different kinds of women.
Also, if you don’t really know what pickup artists do, how do you know what they think of women?
How is impostor syndrome different from having low self esteem?
Well said. This thread is very useful and I think I’ve already learnt a great deal that will help me be more productive. That being said; your right about people’s tendencies to make completely off the wall statements about the underpinnings of human behavior.
I submit that there are people who make it their business to understand other people so that they can manipulate them. These people are sometimes very successful, which indicates that they might know something; if you’re not riding an equally high wave of popularity and love; perhaps you are not qualified to make these assertions regarding humanity’s secret thoughts.
MCT oil.. that’s stuff like coconut oil right? I would never even have considered trying something like that, thanks.
I wouldn’t bother with that. I tried it and the latest version is incompatible with the current batch of poker software, they haven’t updated it in years. You’re better off looking at review sites for a more up to date application.
It’s been a while since you started, what happened next?
The answer appears to be no. There were a few articles in Scientific American: Mind about it a while back. Experiments show that the flaw causing stuff like people denying they can’t move their arms is part of their logic processing; they proved this by figuring out they could reset their thinking for a short time, at which point people were able to clearly state that they were paralyzed and they were surprised at their earlier thinking.
After a minute, the effect wore off and the patient returned to an earlier state. So the effect appears to short circuit the decision making process on a hardware level.