“Dating Roundup #2: If At First You Don’t Succeed” by Zvi

Developments around relationships and dating have a relatively small speed premium, also there are once again enough of them for a full post.

The first speculated on why you’re still single. We failed to settle the issue. A lot of you are indeed still single. So the debate continues.

You’re Single Because You’re Not Even Trying

What does it mean to not even be trying?

It does not only mean the things Alexander pointed us to last time, like 62% of singles being on zero dating apps, and a majority of singles having gone on zero dates in the past year, and a large majority not actively looking for a relationship. Here are those graphs again:

It also means things such as literally never approaching a woman in person.

Alexander (Keeper.ai): Why are so many young men single? Are they excluded from a [...]

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Outline:

(00:25) You’re Single Because You’re Not Even Trying

(07:30) You’re Single Because of Artificial Intelligence

(10:38) You’re Single Because You Meet the Definition of Insanity

(18:52) You’re Single Because You’re Asking the Wrong Questions

(20:40) You’re Single Because of a Market Mismatch

(21:39) You’re Single Because Dating Apps Suck

(25:20) You’re Single Because You Didn’t Pay for Tinder Select

(39:24) You’re Single Because You Have Zero Friends

(43:14) You’re Single Because You Are Bad at Texting

(44:32) You’re Single Because You Have No Honor

(45:28) You’re Single Because You’re Not Hot

(51:23) You’re Single Because You Don’t Get Your House in Order

(52:55) You’re Single Because You’re Too Weird

(54:21) You’re Single Because of Your Bodycount

(59:34) You’re Single Because You Need to Learn Seduction

(01:08:12) You’re Single Because You Cannot Take a Hint

(01:10:05) You’re Single Because You Waste Your Money on Signaling

(01:12:27) You’re Still Single Because You Misalign Your Incentives

(01:13:03) You’re Not Single and You Are an Inspiration

(01:16:04) You’re Probably Not Single Stop Misrepresenting the Statistics

(01:16:35) You’re Single Because You’re Too Busy Writing Comments

(01:19:20) What About My Good Advice?

(01:21:09) Future Plans for this Series

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First published:
January 2nd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y8g4bXF7sdT9RduT6/dating-roundup-2-if-at-first-you-don-t-succeed

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