After a traumatic experience involving an attempt to flirt with someone with SJW tendencies and getting punished for it, I decided not to date anyone in the EA/rationalist space for a while, and treat my engagement with this community as purely professional. Also because 1) I don’t want to get too much sucked into this culture, 2) I don’t want to make the gender imbalance of single people even worse
But most importantly I suspect that 3) if your coworkers are also your dating pool, you’re going to be quite strongly addicted to your narrative, which will make it much harder to own up to evidence if your narrative isn’t working out.
I’ve been with my current girlfriend for 2 years now. For me that’s a long time, my previous maximum out of ±8 relationships was 1 year. She’s not a rationalist in any sense of the word. Compared to rats, she’s less open to experience, much more agreeable, and much less neurotic. Especially the latter is a breath of fresh air.
She soothes me, anchors me in normality. She reminds me that LessWrong and EA are just a bunch of ideas. It’s not that she says it, it’s that I get to see reality through her experience, which is quite sober.
I don’t feel an urge to “convert” her. Quite the opposite.
What does “±8 relationships” mean? Is that a shorthand for 0±8, and if so, does that mean you’re giving the range 0-8, or are you also claiming you’ve potentially had a negative number of relationships (and if so what does that mean)? Or does it mean “8±n relationships”, for some value of n?
After a traumatic experience involving an attempt to flirt with someone with SJW tendencies and getting punished for it, I decided not to date anyone in the EA/rationalist space for a while, and treat my engagement with this community as purely professional. Also because 1) I don’t want to get too much sucked into this culture, 2) I don’t want to make the gender imbalance of single people even worse
But most importantly I suspect that 3) if your coworkers are also your dating pool, you’re going to be quite strongly addicted to your narrative, which will make it much harder to own up to evidence if your narrative isn’t working out.
I’ve been with my current girlfriend for 2 years now. For me that’s a long time, my previous maximum out of ±8 relationships was 1 year. She’s not a rationalist in any sense of the word. Compared to rats, she’s less open to experience, much more agreeable, and much less neurotic. Especially the latter is a breath of fresh air.
She soothes me, anchors me in normality. She reminds me that LessWrong and EA are just a bunch of ideas. It’s not that she says it, it’s that I get to see reality through her experience, which is quite sober.
I don’t feel an urge to “convert” her. Quite the opposite.
What does “±8 relationships” mean? Is that a shorthand for 0±8, and if so, does that mean you’re giving the range 0-8, or are you also claiming you’ve potentially had a negative number of relationships (and if so what does that mean)? Or does it mean “8±n relationships”, for some value of n?
I interpreted it the way I would normally write “~8 relationships”.
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