Idle thought: We were talking about how Less Wrong had a lot (though a minority) of people from less savoury parts of the internet, but that's... actually very good? Less Wrong is actually a great community of last resort because it does genuinely make its members better.
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I think there's more to it than that - both LW and PUA attracted analytical but socially-inept young men trying to figure out human interaction from first principles, so there was a lot of overlap; the LW/PUAs wanted to use ideas from PUA in LW discussions.
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Tbqh i have a lot of sympathy for what ive seen of puas. especially considering it's always been considered bad, wrong, "sinful" "we're gonna teach these guys what their dads never did" "it's not about just getting the girl, it's about keeping the girl" etc. good shit.
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