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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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this is just PUA bullshit right? Oh akshually women are ATTRACTED to "dominant" men, dangerous men, bad boyz, anyone who challenges this is just too woke to admit the truth
I'm extraordinarily reluctant to take the guy's description at face value. It seems ripe for that thing guys do where a crowd that's 1/3 women becomes "mostly women" in their perception. But even taking it at face value, what the Hell, you know? He's holding an event that self-selects for women who are vulnerable to predation and puts them in harm's way. "Protip: to get more feminine energy at your events, advertise it to alcoholic women and hold it at a brewery!"
When I read rationalist descriptions of other people's psychology I sense a certain amount of contempt for them (because they are not Rational and of course cannot understand themselves as well as the rationalists can understand them). In this case, the silly woman who doesn't understand why her expectations are being defied. Maybe it isn't meant to be contemptuous, but that's how it comes across to me.
I dunno, it does read like fiction. Like one of those billionaire romance novels, actually.
Scott Alexander literally says this before his story about 'Henry' the patient who beat his fifth wife because she objected to him cheating with the ex who had left him after he beat her:
/s And male rationalists would never, ever hang out with an edgy scary person like Yarvin, Sailer, or Vassar for the thrill and bragging rights! Only teh fe-males would do such a thing. /s