my advice for mate selection for any person is that while it is good to have things in common like both being rationalists it is more important to have values that complement each other. So if you focus a lot on theory then someone who is more practical, might be better for, if your indecisive then someone who is a bit impulsive could be good for you.
If you are good at math and bad at English then a good match for you might be someone who is bad at math and good at English. So maybe the best match for a rationalist isn’t another rationalist.
Please attach status of evidence to advices. What you said is at least cached wisdom, there obviously is the opposite meme going around, and it’s unclear whether there is any foundation for each of these suggestions to be systematically correct.
I don’t know if it’s reasonable to ask that of advice. This sort of advice is much like an opinion, and evidence isn’t appropriate for opinions. (‘Cheesecake tastes better than caviar’. ‘What evidence do you have of that?’)
You seek the evidence of the facts like “if a random person, or a person with properties Z, tastes this new improved cheesecake, what’s the probability they’ll enjoy it? How highly will people rank it on so and so scale?”. This can be estimated in many ways, with different levels of certainty. Advice is useless noise if you don’t expect it to work for you.
my advice for mate selection for any person is that while it is good to have things in common like both being rationalists it is more important to have values that complement each other. So if you focus a lot on theory then someone who is more practical, might be better for, if your indecisive then someone who is a bit impulsive could be good for you.
If you are good at math and bad at English then a good match for you might be someone who is bad at math and good at English. So maybe the best match for a rationalist isn’t another rationalist.
Please attach status of evidence to advices. What you said is at least cached wisdom, there obviously is the opposite meme going around, and it’s unclear whether there is any foundation for each of these suggestions to be systematically correct.
I don’t know if it’s reasonable to ask that of advice. This sort of advice is much like an opinion, and evidence isn’t appropriate for opinions. (‘Cheesecake tastes better than caviar’. ‘What evidence do you have of that?’)
You seek the evidence of the facts like “if a random person, or a person with properties Z, tastes this new improved cheesecake, what’s the probability they’ll enjoy it? How highly will people rank it on so and so scale?”. This can be estimated in many ways, with different levels of certainty. Advice is useless noise if you don’t expect it to work for you.