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SlutCon

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It felt real and, for a moment, I was worried that it was journalism and not fiction.
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Pleasant read, which feels as if it's from an outsider to the event. Alas, I just don't think there's that much to report.
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This is hilarious. The intersection of rationalism and horniness will be remembered in the future much like the old English aristocratic social order or the social circles portrayed in The Great Gatsby. Just a bunch of pompous, self involved assholes wasting their money in increasingly more stupid ways.
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i can't be the only person who thinks that the concept is entirely irrational right? :P
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This is delightfully written.
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Interesting read. Sure, there's still sex and acid, but man, we're a long way from John Phillips' San Francisco.
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Great read, but I'm a little puzzled.

My takeaway is SlutCon has successfully re-skinned The Argument Clinic. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQlyUjp3vM). Someone enters a commercialized, scheduled space to pay for a raw, spontaneous human experience, only to get trapped in an infuriating debate over the technical definition of the experience itself.

Or am I missing a read-between-the-lines that this event is really to facilitate successful Autistic people in flirting, dating, and relationships?

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> Or am I missing a read-between-the-lines that this event is really to facilitate successful Autistic people in flirting, dating, and relationships?

It's made by Aella, a self-described "probably autistic" sex worker well known in the LessWrong/Rationality circles owing to her nerd speciality turning out to be getting really good at doing large-scale sex surveys right*.

So, yes, I think?

* or at least, if you'll excuse the phrasing, less wrong.

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