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> Committed relationships found by judging other people's personality and looks are completely unnatural for human beings Citation? This is an extraordinary cl
by notfed 3y ago
> Committed relationships found by judging other people's personality and looks are completely unnatural for human beings
Citation? This is an extraordinary claim.
- user_7832 3y agoI think a better way to rephrase this is "judging 10s/100s of people in a few minutes, at days on end." Judging people for looks isn't new, but being picky is easier if there are 1000 options easily available. In pre-internet times there was a much harder limit on how many people you could choose from. Btw tangentially related is the secretary problem - trying to select how many people to reject before selecting the statistically best choice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem).