Luke originally tried to write an article referring to PUA. People told him this was controversial
Yes, I would also like to congratulate Lukeprog for caving in to social pressure and posting information which is deliberately misleading. I am sure that all the (male) people who read this article, and start using his politically correct nonsense to improve their dating lives will really appreciate it too! (As for female dating advice, I don’t know what I am talking about, so I will shut up)
Since the advice given in the article is actively harmful, a better solution would be for Lukeprog to just tell people to google pick up. That way, nobody could flame him on LW, and he wouldn’t be spreading actively harmful information.
Now he seems to be writing more or less the same thing, but communicating it in a less offensive way
he is telling people to display “agreeableness”—pretty much the opposite of PUA advice, he is telling you to “like” others—a dangerous piece of advice which could quickly turn into desperate, supplicative behavior, complimenting, etc. He is emphasizing physical looks over dominance and alpha-male behavior, again the opposite of PUA advice.
I will edit my comment to take account of what you said.
Lukeprog, you have produced exactly that which we have been warned against: an article and a paradigm which has all the appearances and dressings of rationality (lots of citations, links to articles on decision theory, rationalist lingo), but which spectacularly fails to actually pursue the truth.
Vladimir_M puts it better than I could:
he continues:
And finally:
Yvain is also on point:
In three worlds collide, we were introduced to the “Order of Silent Confessors”, which is “charged with guarding sanity, not morality”. In this post especially, I feel that sanity is lying beaten and abused on the floor. I think we need the “Order of Silent Confessors” now.
As a start, Lukeprog, I think you should include the exerpts by vladimir_M and Yvain above in your article.