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I've also thought about that. At first N seemed daunting, but then I added in a bit of the drake equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation https://

I've also thought about that. At first N seemed daunting, but then I added in a bit of the drake equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation) style thinking. Humanity has 33 bits of entropy. So with 33 pieces of information about a person that don't depend on each other can very likely uniquely identify any person. Individually a person is likely to meet 10000 different people in their life, that's 14 bits of entropy if you start there. Male/Female, College educated/not, looks, substance use, desire for children, compatible hobbies, compatible diets, compatible cultures, compatible monetary beliefs, compatible sexual preferences, my own level of attractiveness. Each hard preference has a corresponding reduction in dating pool size. Clearly I am also single.

throwaway98797 4y ago
this made me chuckle, i too think like this and yes im single
svnt 4y ago
This is why the old dating app approach was so powerful — you’d answer dozens if not hundreds of questions, and rank them in relative importance to you as well as the relative importance and allowable values of your partner’s answers. I immediately threw out anyone below 85-90%. My dating pool in a dense urban area over a period of months was tens of people. Once filtered for attractiveness and mutual interest, I was down to single digits. I married the first 99% I went on a date with. Unfortunately (for others) I don’t know if that method is still available anywhere but the app I was using got acquired and reduced to swiping left and right.