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IDK if it belongs here, but Aella is well-known in rationalist circles, and in this article, she is trying to "hack" dating for herself - not very successfully,
by inglor_cz 2y ago
IDK if it belongs here, but Aella is well-known in rationalist circles, and in this article, she is trying to "hack" dating for herself - not very successfully, though. I can almost see my former colleagues from the Mathematics and Physics Faculty in throes of similar desperation.
One of the guys in the comments estimates her requirements down to 5.7 acceptable men in a million people, which aren't great odds.
If you are interested, I would love for this discussion to develop in the "dating online" direction as well. I am almost 47 and most of my dating life happened before smartphones. It is my impression that in the smartphone era, everything became quite a bit more frustrating, not less.
- robocat 2y ago> which aren't great odds For others, here's the comment: This YouGov poll, sourced at the end, notes that 9% of the male population is interested in complete nonmonogamy. US Government Statistics note that males that make >$200k/year comprise approximately 5% of the population. A Pew Research poll states that 51% of young men desire children. Approximately 10% of the population is males ages 22-40, which is a wider age range than I think she would be interested in, but I'm trying to make the numbers as generous as possible. Using a normal distribution curve, approximately 25% of the population will have an attractiveness of >5.9. I selected a generous 10% of the remaining population as being interesting enough for her to engage with on an intellectual level. 0.09 * 0.05 * 0.51 * 0.25 * 0.10 * 0.10 0.00057% 5.7 per million people There are 4.6 million people in the San Francisco metro area I did a similar calculation for a friend who had a few "reasonable" expectations but the odds were less than 1 in 10 billion.