I strongly urge readers to explore this! What should you do if you suspect the other player beholds ‘specialness’ in a different way to you?
Choose a different person to date. Seriously—I suggest that at least part of what we do when dating and to a lesser extent non-romantic relationship formation is identify and select people who have vaguely compatible intuitions about where the shelling points are in relevant game theoretic scenarios.
Choose a different person to date. Seriously—I suggest that at least part of what we do when dating and to a lesser extent non-romantic relationship formation is identify and select people who have vaguely compatible intuitions about where the shelling points are in relevant game theoretic scenarios.
It is, I wager, the origin of the phrase, “They just get me, you know?”