Dating for impact sounds like a parody of the EA community, and I’m rather not a fan of this degree of instrumentality nor “saving EA time [wasted on Tinder] is EA” takes.
Separately, on models of romantic love: Edward Glaeser used to teach his (partially joke) model of finding love in his Microeconomics class. If I remember correct, it had 2 parts—
Finding your partner in college or some other organization of diverse, similarly minded, and highly invested folks is likely optimal
Be very wary of second derivatives—don’t settle for a local minima.
Dating for impact sounds like a parody of the EA community, and I’m rather not a fan of this degree of instrumentality nor “saving EA time [wasted on Tinder] is EA” takes.
Separately, on models of romantic love: Edward Glaeser used to teach his (partially joke) model of finding love in his Microeconomics class. If I remember correct, it had 2 parts—
Finding your partner in college or some other organization of diverse, similarly minded, and highly invested folks is likely optimal
Be very wary of second derivatives—don’t settle for a local minima.
Fair enough. I don’t actually think it’s a super high impact thing, I just needed an excuse to post it here. Otherwise would have seemed too random.
Come to think of it LessWrong would have been a better place to post.