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Oh look, the PUA community is arriving. To be more constructive: There are great benefits to having high status, but it's simply unreachable for most of us, in
by tormeh 12y ago
Oh look, the PUA community is arriving.
To be more constructive: There are great benefits to having high status, but it's simply unreachable for most of us, in addition to having hidden downsides. Instead, I would focus on being pleasant to people around you and create good personal relationships.
- tptacek 12y agoI don't understand your first sentence at all.
- pzxc 12y agoI think he's referring to the "Pick-Up Artist" community and their tendency to eschew empathy and solidarity in favor of manipulation and competition. "Don't hate the playa, hate the game" http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ Warning: Possibly NSFW, features ads about how to "bang 6 girls a week", etc
- gyardley 12y agoThe name escapes me, but I remember seeing an episode of a television series about pick-up artists where the guy talked about the importance of dressing outrageously and not conforming to a dress code. Perhaps this guy is assuming that because pick-up artists and the original poster both have similar thoughts on dress codes, the original poster is therefore a pick-up artist?
- btreecat 12y agoPUA means Pick Up Artists. There are lots of people in the PUA community who just use the same techniques that work to "pick up" people to be more socially confident and meet people. Often people will talk about things like maintaining eye contact, escalating, inner game, etc. In the end, its just exploiting how we are as humans the same way slight of hand works and we all clap at David Blane.
- tptacek 12y agoI got that part. I just didn't see the PUA signifiers in the comment they replied to.
- vinceguidry 12y agoI think he's keying off of the "know the rules so you can transcend them" idea. It's used in a lot of PUA material.
- jiggy2011 12y agoIt's not a thing unique to pick up artists though, it can be applied to most arts or indeed programming. There was an article posted on HN a while ago that explained a similar effect (dressing differently to show status) outside of the context of PUA. For example Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie to meetings with Morgan Stanley.
- AVTizzle 12y agoI don't know OP, but a quick glance at his bio quickly shreds the "PUA" assumption you lobbed on him.