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Study proves bad guys really do get the most girls

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Re: Study proves bad guys really do get the most girls

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Post by ojbyrne »

qeek wrote: post #2

Any tips on becoming a bad guy? :)

You just need to get rejected a bunch of times because you're a nice guy, resulting in plummeting self-esteem, which naturally leads to multiple substance abuse problems and a penchant for bar fights. Then you'll have to resort to petty crime to support your habits, which leads to you getting caught, eventually enough times to go to prison - and, bingo, when you get out you can get the women who rejected you before :-)

Re: Study proves bad guys really do get the most girls

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Post by walterk »

Oompa wrote: post #4

How is this "hacker" news?

It's not, really, but there's presumably a number of "good guy" geeks here who have difficulty interacting with the opposite sex. Unfortunately the hacker-entrepreneur community is also implicitly a community of guys with various inadequacy issues, so stories like this (I remember one purporting to explain why beautiful women marry less attractive men making it the front page) and, say, stories about getting bullied get voted up.

Re: Study proves bad guys really do get the most girls

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Post by daniel-cussen »

ojbyrne wrote: post #3
qeek wrote: post #2

Any tips on becoming a bad guy? :)

You just need to get rejected a bunch of times because you're a nice guy, resulting in plummeting self-esteem, which naturally leads to multiple substance abuse problems and a penchant for bar fights. Then you'll have to resort to petty crime to support your habits, which leads to you getting caught, eventually enough times to go to prison - and, bingo, when you get out you can get the women who rejected you before :…

lol. Taking your joke literally, I think one would simply fuck his life up in the process, without the upside of getting women at the end.

From what I've seen, guys with high time preference (short-term oriented) win out at the beginning, and guys with low time preference (long-term oriented) win out in the end. Pretty tautological stuff. Guys who spend high school working out, worrying about clothes and social standing, and prioritizing their sex lives get sex early on. But then you have Wall Street bankers from elite colleges, and they get a lot of women too. They were often nerds in high school.

Now, you could argue bankers are "bad" in the moral sense, but like the quasi-criminal guys at clubs, they have status and (in many cases) the attending arrogance. I think the "bad" question is more of a question of status than morality, but the two get mixed up because people with status aren't always super nice.

But I'm just basing it on baboon studies like this one: http://hanson.gmu.edu/showcare.pdf

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