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The Hope Axis by Anna GátThe End of Year Collective EpisodeThis week on The Hope Axis, I’m joined by Natasha Joukovsky, Noah Smith, Musa al-Gharbi, Erica Robles Anderson, Santiago Ramos, Jacob Falkovich, and Gena Gorlin for a free-flowing conversation about AI, culture, creativity, and how people are actually living through all this change. We talk about what’s exciting, what’s worrying, what’s weird, and where a bit of hope still sneaks in. Hope you enjoy.For the full transcript of our conversation, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BghQ...Important Links: Natasha Joukovsky...
2026-02-061h 26
The Bayesian Conspiracy230 – Making Dating Not Suck with Jacob FalkovichJacob Falkovich on finding a good match and selfless dating
LINKS
SecondPerson.Dating – why dating sucks and how you will unsuck it
Jacob’s post on soccer player skill distribution
Go Fuck Someone
Selfless Dating
Consensual Hostility (re consent culture)
steelmanning Monogamy
A recent(ish) TBC episode on polyamory
Eneasz on finding partners that like the opposite sex
Dear Grom and Other Stories
00:00:05 – Dating
01:04:56 – Guild of the Rose
01:08:22 – Less Wrong Posts
01:19:35 – Thank the Supporter!
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
2025-01-221h 21The Bayesian Conspiracy230 – Making Dating Not Suck with Jacob FalkovichJacob Falkovich on finding a good match and selfless dating
LINKS
SecondPerson.Dating – why dating sucks and how you will unsuck it
Jacob’s post on soccer player skill distribution
Go Fuck Someone
Selfless Dating
Consensual Hostility (re consent culture)
steelmanning Monogamy
A recent(ish) TBC episode on polyamory
Eneasz on finding partners that like the opposite sex
Dear Grom and Other Stories
00:00:05 – Dating
01:04:56 – Guild of the Rose
01:08:22 – Less Wrong Posts
01:19:35 – Thank the Supporter!
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
2025-01-221h 21
The Bayesian Conspiracy230 – Making Dating Not Suck with Jacob FalkovichJacob Falkovich on finding a good match and selfless dating
LINKS
SecondPerson.Dating – why dating sucks and how you will unsuck it
Jacob’s post on soccer player skill distribution
Go Fuck Someone
Selfless Dating
Consensual Hostility (re consent culture)
steelmanning Monogamy
A recent(ish) TBC episode on polyamory
Eneasz on finding partners that like the opposite sex
Dear Grom and Other Stories
00:00:05 – Dating
01:04:56 – Guild of the Rose
01:08:22 – Less Wrong Posts
01:19:35 – Thank the Supporter!
Our Patreon, or if you prefer Our SubStack
2025-01-221h 21
Moral MayhemDating and Discourse with Jacob FalkovichThis week we were joined by our friend Jacob Falkovich. Jacob publishes some of the best “White-pilled” dating advice out there on his blog Second Person, and in addition to being a great Twitter follow he’s also known for putanumonit. We discuss the importance of agency in dating, the negativity bias prevalent in dating discourse, and the limited use-cases for dating apps. Jacob suggests taking a break from the metanarratives about dating (and how hopeless it is) to focus on your actual experiences—who are you meeting, what kind of things do you want to do with a partner...
2024-11-121h 46The Hope Axis by Anna GátJacob Falkovich: Dating, Fertility, PolyamoryAuthor, rationalist, finance expert Jacob Falkovich visited The Hope Axis. We talked about data and dating, rationality in love, fertility and polyamory, f*ckability as capital, what most people get wrong about love and family, and why people are not having kids (or even sex).
2024-08-191h 32
The Mind KillerEpisode 78 - Who Judges the Judges?Wes, Eneasz, and David discuss the news from the last two weeks from a rationalist perspectiveSupport us on Substack!News discussed:S**t is going down in IsraelBig protests over Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reformsNew proposals would give political appointees a majorityElite fighter squadron is boycotting trainingSilicon Valley Bank is insolventJacob Falkovich blames the governmentBank run stopped by new Fed policy the Bank Term Funding ProgramAnthropic Shadow? “this i...
2023-03-151h 24
The Metaculus JournalAction Ontologies, Computer Ontologies https://www.metaculus.com/notebooks/9885/action-ontologies-computer-ontologies/ The following essay is by Jacob Falkovich who writes at Putanumonit.com The mystery of perception Out in the universe, there are merely atoms¹ and the void. On the table in front of you, there's a ripe tomato. Inside your skull is a brain, a collection of neurons that have no direct access to either atoms or tomatoes — only the electrochemical state of some other neurons. And yet your brain is able to perceive a tomato and various qualities of it: red, round, three-dimensional, real. On...
2022-05-0919 min
Narratives89: Rationality with Jacob FalkovichIn this episode we talk with Jacob about rationality, dating, the hot hand fallacy and more. Jacob blogs at https://putanumonit.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willjarvis.substack.com
2022-04-1150 min
Sad Intellectual HottiesLess Sex, Bad Sex in a "Sex Positive" Culture: Sex in the Age of Risk ManagementPeople are having less sex than ever even though we are supposedly more sex positive than ever. Apoc and Cassandra discuss two articles, "Sex Negative Society by Jacob Falkovich https://quillette.com/2021/05/13/the-sex-negative-society/ and The New Yorker's book review on “Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent,” Katherine Angel https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-politics-of-bad-sex
Sex is less frequent and naturally with less practice comes less skill which can lead to a bad time.
2021-05-2638 min
Clearer Thinking with Spencer GreenbergRationality Education and Dating (with Jacob Falkovich) Read the full transcript here. What's the best way to teach rationality? How do you communicate rationalist principles to people who aren't already interested in thinking more clearly? What has COVID taught us about how people typically make decisions and think about problems? Where and how can the rationalist community improve? Does rationalism have anything to say about (for example) exercise, spirituality, art, or other parts of the human experience that aren't typically addressed by rationalists? What are some positive aspects of social media (especially Twitter)? What's going on with recent dating trends? Has dating gotten harder...
2021-02-251h 15
eigenrobotepisode 06: eigenrobot vs yashkafJacob Falkovich and I talk about the past and future of Rationalism, the dangers scenes face from society, and how to move a frightened world.
2021-02-091h 16
Crazy WisdomWhat is the free energy theory? - Jacob FalkovichJacob wrote this tweet thread and I had to reach out to him to find out what the hell free energy theory is: https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1207133151941840896 I had read a very interesting wired article on it but didn't understand most of it. Jacob lays it all down here and connects it to psychedelic and mental states. Check out Jacob's blog here: https://putanumonit.com/
2020-03-1353 min
The SwitchPutting Numbers on Things w/ Jacob FalkovichIn this episode, we speak with Jacob Falkovich, the author of the blog Put A Num On It. We speak with Jacob about how he goes about analyzing problems and using numbers to make decisions. We get his thoughts on various issues, including anti-natalism, dating, and more.As always, the episode will be available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts!The Switch on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/switch_podcastJacob’s Blog: https://putanumonit.com/Jacob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yashkaf
2019-06-151h 15
Buck TalkFed Watching – January 19th
10 (5!) minute long breakdown of the week’s events in markets and the economy.
Markets up again. No economic news. IQs stagnating?
Links:Timothy Taylor comments on the Flynn Effect: http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-flynn-effect-rising-iq-scores-over.html
Jacob Falkovich’s post, Tails of Great Soccer Players: https://putanumonit.com/2015/11/10/003-soccer1/
2019-01-2204 min