User:Samaritan/Ascension

This guide aims to summarize the process of ascending from a blackpilled perspective. It is structured on the principles of LMS, which means Looks, Money and Status, the generally accepted theory of how female sexuality operates on the blackpilled incelosphere, especially incel forums that are relatives of 4chan's r9k board or PUAhate.com. It is a concept developed by a member of the former anti-pickup-artist community, Chinpoko, and further popularized by YouTuber 'FaceandLMS', where it is suggested that what matters in attracting women are mainly looks, money and status. LMS denies confidence, personality and game to be the most significant factors.

Looks

Multiple studies on face-to-face, online and blind dating concluded that among a variety of physical and personality traits, including extroversion, only physical attractiveness predicted initial romantic interest and strongly so. One of these studies dates back to 1966, so superficiality in face-to-face dating is unlikely a novel phenomenon.

Similarly, when OkCupid asked users to rate looks and personality separately, users did not distinguish between the two. To confirm their hypothesis that pictures were what people were rating as good personality, OkCupid followed up with another internal study which showed that online bio text accounts for less than 10% of what users think of the profiles. This means game in terms of witty and confident textual self-descriptions is also largely ineffective. Meeting online is notably now the primary way people meet for relationships, however, this includes meeting up through social networks and chats, where personality may play a larger role than in the blind and semi-blind dating.

Benefits of being attractive

By being attractive, you'll have an easier time getting:

• Dates/a girlfriend/partner
• Sex
• A job where looks are relevant (modelling, acting or being a digital influencer, having youtube channels or instagram) (provide sources)
• People socializing, starting and carrying conversations with you (provide sources)
• People gravitating towards you, as well as having people rationalize anything you say or do as positive (provide sources)
• A penalty reduction for being old/past your prime, especially if you still have sex appeal. (provide sources)
• Forgiveness from people. (provide sources)
• Less jail time in case you are arrested. (provide sources)
• Positive feedback and a better overall life and opportunities. (provide sources)
• Positive outlook about life and better chances at being neurotypical (provide sources)
• Less likely to get bullied (provide sources)
• Positively biased grading on some activities that require scored evaluation (provide sources)

Face

Face is arguably the most important factor in looks ^{[citation needed]} , as it is the body part used on profile pictures, be it important ones (resume, Linkedin) or on general social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, dating apps), and alongside height is the biggest social opener.

Measuring attractiveness, getting ratings and feedback

In order to take action, you must first attempt to measure your current level of facial attractiveness, from an unbiased perspective with honest opinions, take notes of it, and later enumerate your strengths and flaws. You can do the following:

1- Create a thread on Looksmax.me's Ratings board (https://looksmax.me/forums/ratings.7/) with your pictures, front, profile, and full body.

2- https://www.photofeeler.com/

3- Create a Tinder profile on an area with many users, a city with a huge population (provide a sample population size). Preferably use four pictures (pictures containing face, full body, at least one picture on casual environment). Then use this widget to calculate your attractiveness level based on match percentage (per 100 swipes): https://www.wolframalpha.com/widgets/gallery/view.jsp?id=1f51953255f63027635d602d42b96718

4 - Use Omegle https://www.omegle.com/ . If women skip you too often, it's a bad sign.

5- Don't ask women in real life for opinions, and don't ask on Reddit for ratings. They are known for virtue signalling and sugarcoating, and not providing honest opinions, thus leaving some people in the dark.

After that, take notes on what made you be considered unattractive.

- Post a list of surgeries accordingly to each body part and their average prices around the world, also mentioning the cheapest place in average pricing to get the surgery (and refer to the money guide of the article)

Possible interventions

Upper third

Problem	Soft intervention / Softmaxing	Hard intervention / Surgery
Bad hair density/ receding hairline	Finasteride / minoxidil	Hair transplant
Bad hair color	hair dye
Natural high hairline/ oversized forehead		hairline lowering / forehead reduction
Overly sloped forehead		forehead implants/ bone cement
Forehead wrinkles	Botox	facelift
Sunken temples	fillers	fat transfer
Weak eyebrows	castor oil/ latisse/ minox/ microblading	eyebrow transplant
Ugly eyebrow shape	styling/ Botox / browlift
Weak brow bones		supraorbital implants
Narrow skull/ ugly cranium / subhuman occiput	haircut/ covering up

Middle third

Problem	Soft intervention / Softmaxing	Hard intervention / Surgery
Ugly eye area	Fillers	Blepharoplasty / fat graft / Lower eyelid retraction
Ugly eye shape		Almond eye surgery / Canthoplasty / Orbital decompression
Poor PFL
Poor IPD
Weak eye lashes	Castor oil/ Latisse
Bad eye color	Contacts
Hollow undereye area	Fillers	Fat transfer / implants
Ugly nose		Rhinoplasty
Flat cheekbones	Fillers	Implants / ZSO
Recessed maxilla		LeFort 1 osteotomy
Nasolabial folds	Fillers	Fat graft
Overall bad midface		Lefort 1-2, 3.. Midface lift, high cut lf1

Lower third

Problem	Soft intervention / Softmaxing	Hard intervention / Surgery
Recessed jaw		Implants/ Bimaxillary orthognathic surgery / BSSO / Chin wing (Genioplasty)
Narrow jaw	Fillers	Chin wing (Genioplasty) / Implants
Narrow palate/maxilla	Face pulling	Maxillary Skeletal Expansion (MSE)
Recessed chin	Fillers	Implants / Genioplasty
Round jaw / chin	Fillers	Implants
Pencil neck	Neck training	Implants
Neck wrinkles		Neck lift
Narrow palate	Palate expander
Ugly teeth	Teeth whitening	Orthodontist treatments
Small lips	Fillers	Lip lift
Bloated mouth area		Buccal fat removal
Long philtrum		Lip lift
Ugly facial hair		Beard transplant

Overall

Problem	Soft intervention / Softmaxing	Hard intervention / Surgery
Acne	Accutane
Big pores	Chemical peel	Laser
Skin aging	Retin-A gel	Facelift
Bad skin coloring	Tan (Darken) / Skin bleaching (Whiten)
Small skull size
Fat face	Losing weight / Dieting and exercising
Low SMV race / phenotype
Bad facial harmony in general

Body

Ideal bodytypes

- Mention what are the most desirable and physically attractive bodytypes

Dieting

- Provide dieting tips, mention that crash dieting is shit

Gymmaxing

- Provide tips on ideal bodyweight, how to calculate BMI and bodyfat etc

- Provide the average training routine to achieve ideal bodytypes that gives results as fast as possible with the least effort as possible

Calisthenics

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a8tlZ-zbF695HA3Lmm20OIYeYYxo1lmUOczUXKLoL4s/

Possible interventions

Problem	Soft intervention / Softmaxing	Hard intervention / Surgery
Short height (manletism)	Platform shoes / Height insoles	Limb lenthening
High body fat	Losing weight / Dieting and exercising
Narrow shoulders	Gymmaxing (back and shoulder muscle development)	Shoulder lengthening
Bad body proportions

Photomaxxing

Most incels and autistic men are known for not being photogenic. This section needs to provide tips on how to improve their photos, and where to look for professional photographers / how to obtain professional photography and even inputs from modelling agencies. This step is needed in order to aid the user to improve the profile reach for the CV/Linkedin or dating services.

Money

Carreermaxing

Recommended fields

- Mention which fields are the easiest to get decent jobs, and which ones are the easiest to get higher salaries

Studymaxing

For studying, it's recommended to use the STIC technique. The STIC technique stands for: (S)pacing, (T)esting, (I)nterleaving and (C)ategorizing. Much of this concept has scientific backing, with nearly 100 years of academic papers covering it. For reference, it is recommended to watch the following videos from Ali Abdaal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukLnPbIffxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zNHHpXoMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBXnxlLR0PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbxPVn02VU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5A26Sc63F0

The key to this concept is using active recall and spaced repetition techniques. Under active recall, you must first understand the topic, then practice it, either by writing questions or by using something like Anki. In the videos above, you can see evidence that rereading, text highlighting and summarizing are ineffective. To actually learn you must read once, then write questions, then answer them (without looking for the answers), and then correcting these questions by revisiting the study material / book. The next step is interleaving,where when you are studying several topics for a single subject in a day, instead of going through topic1>topic2>topic3>topic4(...) , you should do topic1>topic2>topic1(again)>topic3>topic2(again) (...) Lastly,comes spaced repetition,where you set a spreadsheet where you should assign where you should go over these topics again, after X days, then after X weeks, after X months (...) Then you do the categorizing , where you need to draw a graph/flowchart to make a quick synthesis about all the topics from the subject you studied.

Managing money

- Provide basic finance management tips

- F.I.R.E.

Trading

- Provide the basics on trading

Getting money online quickly and legally

- Provide (LEGAL) tips on how to get money quickly on online jobs

Status

- Provide tips on how to build a good reputation (also, a partial NTmaxing guide)

Arranged marriage

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23644606?seq=1 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2217232/arranged-marriages-lead-to-happier-relationships-because-couples-put-more-effort-in-to-make-them-work/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474704919887706

Neurotypicalmaxing

Recommended readings if one is autistic and has to live among NTs:

• How To Make Friends And Influence People, Dale Carnegie (extremly basic rules; summary here)
• What Every Body Is Saying, Joe Navarro
• Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships

General advice: do not try to do social schemes, as they would require you to have anough empathy to understand NTs which you do not have if you are autistic.

Therapy has been proven to not be very effective: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656616302410

Talent / Skill maxing

Cooking

Cooking is simply components reacting with one anothers.

• The number one rule in cooking meat if you are not professionaly trained or very experienced is: buy a good digital meat thermometer. Most chefs have some pseudo-techniques they claim let them know when a piece of meat is perfectly cooked, but those techniques are not reliable. Moreoever, "[c]ooks who say they don't need thermometers are either seasoned old-timers who learned at the foot of a master and have doing it for years, or they's macho knuckle draggers." Besides, "[a]lmost all chefs carry a meat thermometer in their chef's coat." Buy a good digital meat thermometer for your meat cooking, there is no way around it.

Learning the basics:

• Ethan Chlebowski's Youtube channel is also a very good channel to learn how to cook.

Recommended readings for advanced cooking techniques and information (not for recipes):

• Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling (also helps for meat in general)
• On Food And Cooking: The Science And Lore Of The Kitchen, Harold McGee
• The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Successful personality types

- Mention which personality type can land better opportunities at life and how can specific personality traits improve socialization endeavors