There’s a Barcelona Lair if you’re really interested in pickup. If you’re at a university, in a debating club, then there are intelligent women about. Everybody’s a potential rationalist. People in relationships generally change, and the more awesome, fun and attractive you are the more likely any partner you find will be to change for you.
That place sounds pretty badass. Do you know it personally?
As for the awesome part, as a good rationalist, I am steadily working on it.
And i don’t want to change anyone, I want to find someone who already is a rationalist (not specifically a Lesswronger, just someone who values Truth as a terminal value… at least for a start) or has the disposition to grow into one. In Big Bang Theory terms, I would never date a Penny, a Bernie, a Priya or an Amy would all be interesting choices (all of them inconvenient in their own way, but, hey, we’re all people).
A pretty brutal but quite efficient acid test would be suggesting they read Methods of Rationality. That book is kinda the sum of a lot of stuff I like and endorse, so if they go as enthusiastic about it as I was before Schedule Slip, it’s almost certain we’ll at least be very good friends. Furthermore, and failing that, the fact that they can ’keep up with the more complicated knots of the plot means we can have the sort of advanced discussion I enjoy. Failing that, the fact they’d be willing to consider reading a fanfiction would already mean we share some unusual cultural priors.
There’s a Barcelona Lair if you’re really interested in pickup. If you’re at a university, in a debating club, then there are intelligent women about. Everybody’s a potential rationalist. People in relationships generally change, and the more awesome, fun and attractive you are the more likely any partner you find will be to change for you.
That place sounds pretty badass. Do you know it personally?
As for the awesome part, as a good rationalist, I am steadily working on it.
And i don’t want to change anyone, I want to find someone who already is a rationalist (not specifically a Lesswronger, just someone who values Truth as a terminal value… at least for a start) or has the disposition to grow into one. In Big Bang Theory terms, I would never date a Penny, a Bernie, a Priya or an Amy would all be interesting choices (all of them inconvenient in their own way, but, hey, we’re all people).
A pretty brutal but quite efficient acid test would be suggesting they read Methods of Rationality. That book is kinda the sum of a lot of stuff I like and endorse, so if they go as enthusiastic about it as I was before Schedule Slip, it’s almost certain we’ll at least be very good friends. Furthermore, and failing that, the fact that they can ’keep up with the more complicated knots of the plot means we can have the sort of advanced discussion I enjoy. Failing that, the fact they’d be willing to consider reading a fanfiction would already mean we share some unusual cultural priors.