My instinct on this is driven by having been in bad and good relationships, and reflecting on myself in those situations. It ain’t much, but it’s what I’ve got to work with. Yes, some people are unmatchable, or shouldn’t be matched. But somewhere between “is in high demand and has good judgement, can easily find great matches” and “is unmatchable and should be kept away from others”, there’s a lot of people that can be matched better. Or that’s the hypothesis.
Seems reasonable, although I’d still wonder just how much difference improving the match would make even for the majority of middle-ground people. It sounded in the grandparent post (first and fourth paragraphs particularly) that you were treating the notion that it would be “a lot” as a premise rather than a hypothesis.
Well, it’s more than a hypothesis, it’s a goal. If it doesn’t work, then it doesn’t, but if it does, it’s pretty high impact. (though not existential-risk avoidance high, in and of itself).
Finding a good match has made a big subjective difference for me, and there’s a case it’s made a big objective difference (but then again, I’d say that) and I had to move countries to find that person.
Yeah, maybe the original phrasing is too strong (blame the entrepreneur in pitch mode) but the 6th paragraph does say that it’s an off-chance it can be made to work, though both a high improvement potential and a high difficulty in materialising it are not mutually exclusive.
My instinct on this is driven by having been in bad and good relationships, and reflecting on myself in those situations. It ain’t much, but it’s what I’ve got to work with. Yes, some people are unmatchable, or shouldn’t be matched. But somewhere between “is in high demand and has good judgement, can easily find great matches” and “is unmatchable and should be kept away from others”, there’s a lot of people that can be matched better. Or that’s the hypothesis.
Seems reasonable, although I’d still wonder just how much difference improving the match would make even for the majority of middle-ground people. It sounded in the grandparent post (first and fourth paragraphs particularly) that you were treating the notion that it would be “a lot” as a premise rather than a hypothesis.
Well, it’s more than a hypothesis, it’s a goal. If it doesn’t work, then it doesn’t, but if it does, it’s pretty high impact. (though not existential-risk avoidance high, in and of itself).
Finding a good match has made a big subjective difference for me, and there’s a case it’s made a big objective difference (but then again, I’d say that) and I had to move countries to find that person.
Yeah, maybe the original phrasing is too strong (blame the entrepreneur in pitch mode) but the 6th paragraph does say that it’s an off-chance it can be made to work, though both a high improvement potential and a high difficulty in materialising it are not mutually exclusive.