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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

#11
gasp women like alpha males? WTF?!?!?!?! on a less sarcastic note, notice that the traits mentioned are all leadership traits. Leaders generally have to be somewhat narcissistic, otherwise they wouldn't believe they are worthy to be leader. They have to be risk takers to upset the status quo. And they have to be Machiavellian to govern efficiently.

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

#13

gasp women like alpha males? WTF?!?!?!?! on a less sarcastic note, notice that the traits mentioned are all leadership traits. Leaders generally have to be somewhat narcissistic, otherwise they wouldn't believe they are worthy to be leader. They have to be risk takers to upset the status quo. And they have to be Machiavellian to govern efficiently.

OTOH: this is my personal take on it. fuck you evolution and your maximized expected reproductive utility. I'd rather be happy. Happiness is probably selected against since satisfied, content people don't run around trying desperately to mate as much as possible.

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

#14
This reminds me of pg's "Why Are Nerds Unpopular?". Obviously these "negative"-- and innate [directly or emerging from other innate behavioral] dispositions, are present and purposefully developed and honed extensively by individuals who prioritize the game of attracting mates, and gaining access to higher quality/quantity of mates. Or maybe these universal traits just emerge from the practical requirements of achieving their goals. In either case, being that type of person requires an enormous time commitment. Social hierarchy climbing is their one ambition in life, and sex is their reward.

It's a lot more compatible with being a politician or power-seeker in business, than it is with being a geek. The geek seeks to create/understand. So their creations and discoveries are their reward. The geek may want what the alpha male has, even want it strongly, but values the primary geek rewards more strongly, and will never prioritize the alpha male reward enough to be that other person. And it's good that many of us are not that person, because I couldn't see much value in a world without ambition to do actually worthwhile things.

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

#15
post #4

How is this "hacker" news?

because this is the new reddit?

/* This story could be hacker news if the discussion were focused on:

1. how countervailing strategies can be successful for some niches

2. what this tells us about human motivation

3. some other aspect that tells us something about what it is to be human.

but since the discussion seems to have started at the level of rhetorical oneupsmanship and be sinking rapidly into resentful misogyny; it is neither news, nor for hackers. */

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

#16
If this kind of thing interests you, do some research into the "seduction" community.

I've been very impressed with their psychological "experiments" with women and how they have evolved systems that allow normal guys to get hot girls.

Doubleyourdating.com is a good starting point.

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

#18
If any of you think to start being bad, you should think twice. Its very hard to be just the right amount of bad. I'm talking from experience, i tried to be bad and girls just think im creepy. :)

Anyway check http://www.highstatusmale.com and check the book "without embarrassment" its good not only if you want more girls, but if you only want a little more understanding of the way humans communicate, entrepreneurs might find it interesting to find how they can be the wright amount of bad to be able to talk to people and BE THE ALPHA MALE in the conversation. I had bad luck with girls, but didn't have low self-esteem and didn't knew where the problem was. I read the book and i found out that i was doing almost everything right. So i started thinking why? And then i realized i was sabotaging myself. Most girls i knew were boring people, so my subconscious decided to sabotage me so that i wouldn't hang out with boring people and after i realized that i still don't like boring(hot) girls. So some of us have a problem with girls not because of low self-esteem, but because of too high self-esteem(how i wish i wasn't so picky :D).

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