No.8001
Have you fuckers seen Eliezer's OKCupid profile?
https://web.archive.org/web/20130117001930/http://www.okcupid.com/profile/Eyudkowsky
>I've noticed that a lot of aspiring-rationalist females seem very shy and underconfident for one reason or another; so let me state here you shouldn't worry about disqualifying yourself or thinking that I'm not accessible to you. Don't decide on other people's behalf that they'll say no to you. Just decide whether you'd say yes yourself. Test experimentally what happens when you try asking directly for what you want - that's Empiricism. This advice applies any time you prefer the state of affairs where you sleep with a guy to not sleeping with him, and also to life in general.
>Though I'm also cool with trophy collection, if you only want to sleep with me once so you can tell your grandchildren.
Alpha as fuck.
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No.8002
http://lesswrong.com/lw/70u/rationality_lessons_learned_from_irrational/
>So I broke up with Alice over a long conversation that included an hour-long primer on evolutionary psychology in which I explained how natural selection had built me to be attracted to certain features that she lacked.
Rational as fuck.
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No.8003
>>8002
> Ask yourself: Which parts of romance do you currently think of as subjects of optimization? What else should you be optimizing?
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No.8004
>>8002
Alice seems like a cool chick, I want to hear her version of the story.
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No.8005
>>8002
>I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck.
>To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.
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No.8006
I went through our shared match questions. Every time he disagreed with me, I learned that I had been wrong about something <33
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No.8007
>>8006
gratuitous addition of faggotry.png, but i mean it supportively
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No.8008
>>8002
> Whenever I noticed sexual jealousy in myself, I brought to mind my moral objections to the idea of owning another's sexuality.
If you can logic yourself out of a natural emotion why not logic yourself out of the need for a relationship altogether? This does seem less "rational" and more a rationalization of a cuckold fetish.
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No.8009
>>8008
if it was a fetish they wouldn't have to reason around an aversion to is, you fuckwit
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No.8010
>>8008
For Big Yud its about rationalizing being a cult leader who sleeps with his disciple's women.
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No.8011
>>8009
The rationalization isn't to accept it, it's to reject the received wisdom that it's a bad idea.
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No.8012
>>8001
>I'm a great fan of Bach's music, and believe that it's best rendered as techno electronica with heavy thumping beats, the way Bach intended.
No, you see, Johan Sebastian Bach, who lived from 1685-1750, totally intended his music to have thumping techno beats, musicologists are just not R A T I O N A L enough to get it.
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No.8013
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No.8014
>>8011
>received wisdom
Seems to me the only people who "received" that "wisdom" are lonely, fuck-ugly Traditionalists trying to explain why their untouched fat assholes aren't receiving the long dicks they spend all their time fantasizing about
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No.8015
>>8014
>only unpopular people think cuckoldry is bad
seriously wondering if this is a false flag
if so, excellent work
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No.8016
>>8013
what kind of joke is that supposed to be?
>Good evening, m'lady, I'm a pleb
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No.8017
>>8016
Are you completely unfamiliar with human interaction?
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No.8018
>>8015
Poe's fucking law man.
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No.8019
>>8005
It's been a long time since I read Blindsight, but Chelsea always seemed mostly unlikeable to me. Which is fine, I guess, but she wasn't unlikeable in a particularly interesting or intentional way.
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No.8020
>>8008
The single emotion of jealousy while in a relationship is a smaller thing than the multitude of emotions that make us feel the need for a relationship, so given that it takes a finite but nonzero amount of effort to "logic yourself out of a natural emotion", obviously you want to rationalise cuckoldry instead of incelry.
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No.11435
A more recent version of Big Yud's public profile said he was "the master of Brienne". We know she took his surname. Are they in a lifestyle master/slave relationship?
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No.11437
>>11435
I know Yud used to run with Thiel back when Thiel was really into the scene (like heavy into it, like neogor, BMFC, shit like that). Maybe that's how they got close in the first place, like shared interests?
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No.11440
>>8019
I don't think any of the blindsight characters are likeable nor meant to be likeable. I read it for the weird alien biology and the thinking about consciousness honestly. That book was a formative experience for me in my teenage years and I should read it again one day to see what else I can get out of it
>>11437
>neogor
Neogoreaction (NGx)
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