ProfSeddit Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
116	Master Class.		ProfSeddit	/r/seduction	30/10/12 03:18 PM

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1	Master Class. I couldn't get through the 4th edition myself. He made strong claims without citing evidence or specifics. The 5th edition is an enormous improvement.	/r/seduction	01/11/12 11:36 AM
0	Master Class. Nice how you nitpicked one of my statements instead of actually responding to my post. Professors don't refute screaming toddlers point by point. I'm here for the 2/3 of folks who read this post and went, "Huh. Interesting way of thinking about it." I'm not here for you and I don't have time to deal with spurious argument by "spreading." They are getting advice on how to be an attractive person. I'm giving them advice on how to be attractive instead of merely appearing attractive.	/r/seduction	31/10/12 05:14 PM
3	Master Class. Just look at the advice: "make no apologies for who you are" "never take things too seriously" "eliminate all limiting beliefs from your life" "you are unique." You're going to tell me that not taking yourself to seriously and eliminating limiting beliefs from your life is stepping on a hedonic treadmill? Yeah. Those ideas are hardly new. I'm advocating quite the opposite. Instead of changing who you are, you can instead change only your frameworks for thinking about social interaction.	/r/seduction	31/10/12 12:43 PM
-1	Master Class. You raise a few deep topics. The most compact response is that Google search has zero relevant hits for "Eckhart Tolle Bayes". I don't even know where to start with unpacking what that means for you. What I can say is that can only help is that the scientific literature expertly parsed is close to a Bayes-optimal estimator of the capital T Truth. Resynthesizing what I've said above into an "inner game:" Life has only one goal: happiness. Sustainable happiness is comprised of gratitude, exercise,…	/r/seduction	31/10/12 12:25 AM
12	Master Class. "Nice guy" is submission, not cooperation. Cooperation is towards MUTUAL best interest. Game theorists have beaten the crap out of this and similar topics already.	/r/seduction	31/10/12 12:04 AM
5	Master Class. 1. The pedagogy literature is in no way well-suited to having a compact discussion on Reddit. My claim is exactly what you make of it: that a book on body language written by a man with a professorship for his understanding of it will be helpful. In particular, it will give folks an expert's frameworks through which to view and understand their experiences as they become an expert in their own right. 2. I'll happily cede the point. I'm unwilling to provide evidence. 3. Nobody is saying that you …	/r/seduction	30/10/12 09:24 PM
8	Master Class. I think it's fair to say that it's not just socializing, but socializing well.	/r/seduction	30/10/12 08:43 PM
1	Master Class. That's bullshit absolutism. I can punch every customer in the face, crack a "yo momma joke," and proclaim that I LOVE Nickleback, and still sell $1 Ferraris.	/r/seduction	30/10/12 08:11 PM
2	Master Class. Seduction is more than a sale. Seldom is the salesman the product. Also, high pressure sales may get you into bed, but buyer's remorse can quite literally be a bitch.	/r/seduction	30/10/12 07:35 PM
9	Master Class. The same people who put up newspaper headlines that say "EGGS ARE BAD," "EGGS ARE GOOD," "GO ON ATKINS," "ATKINS IS BAD," etc. People paid to generate interest in their content by turning scientific statements like, "The Atkins diet was found to raise cortisol, (T=1.68, N=30), in population P..." into "ATKINS WILL KILL YOU WITH STRESS!"	/r/seduction	30/10/12 06:17 PM
2	Master Class. This is more for developing and maintaining relationships with women than seduction. My time spent with women in what the book calls "Procedural Knowing" has been far more pleasant than my time spent with women below that stage.	/r/seduction	30/10/12 06:10 PM
5	Master Class. Sort of. It's more that human are (usually) stable, and therefore (when they're stable) most everything we know about state transitions that arise from energy functions applies to them. This applies to seduction when we talk about controlling the system. You want to observe it (by reading relative discomfort through body language) and then apply control effort (as described in Influence) in a way that doesn't cost you social capital.	/r/seduction	30/10/12 06:06 PM
3	Master Class. I'm saying exactly that. Converse Lyapunov is more of a backwater than Lyapunov, though. For humans, what's important is the knowledge that there IS an energy function (but only at some times!) and that this predicts the rate of transition between and relative abundance of behaviors via math already well understood from its applications in chemistry. It IS cryptic and I'm sorry about that. I don't exactly teach this stuff in any of my classes on biological controls.	/r/seduction	30/10/12 05:19 PM
1	Master Class. Two principles apply here. 1) Commitment principle Folks who've paid the price of admission to a PUA system where they have to gut themselves will NOT be happy to learn it was all for nothing. Cialdini gives the example of doomsday cults whose predicted "doom date" has passed. Instead of disbanding, they become more fervent in their belief. 2) Principle of Social Proof Noting that adherents to the "lookup table" style system have paid a terrible price and they're stuck on a hedonic treadmill act…	/r/seduction	30/10/12 05:13 PM