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Salvador Podcast#1 - Jacob Falkovich: unraveling the game of love and datingJacob Falkovich is the writer behind Second person dating, a blog and Substack weaving together rationality, relationships, and culture. His work explores how dating works in the real world — not the fairy tale or the algorithm — and what it means to be honest, strategic, and human, follow Jacob on Twitter We talk about the epistemology of dating, the myth of soulmates, polyamory, emotional rationality, and how to escape the hidden scripts of modern romance. Topics are outlined in the timestamps below.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.Support my w...2025-03-2051 min

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 46

The 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

Narratives w/Will Jarvis89: 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/ 2022-04-1150 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

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsIs Rationalist Self-Improvement Real? by Jacob FalkovichWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.This is: Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?, published by Jacob Falkovich on the LessWrong.Cross-posted from Putanumonit.BasketballismImagine that tomorrow everyone on the planet forgets the concept of training basketball skill.The next day everyone is as good at basketball as they were the previous day, but this talent is assumed to be fixed. No one expects their performance to change over time. No one teaches basketball, although many people continue to play the game for fun.Geneticists...2021-12-1217 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsIs Rationalist Self-Improvement Real? by Jacob FalkovichWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?, published by Jacob Falkovich on the LessWrong. Cross-posted from Putanumonit. Basketballism Imagine that tomorrow everyone on the planet forgets the concept of training basketball skill. The next day everyone is as good at basketball as they were the previous day, but this talent is assumed to be fixed. No one expects their performance to change over time. No one teaches basketball, although many people continue to play the game for fun. ...2021-12-1217 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsThe Treacherous Path to Rationality by Jacob FalkovichWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.This is: The Treacherous Path to Rationality, published by Jacob Falkovich on the LessWrong.Cross-posted, as always, from Putanumonit.Rats v. PlagueThe Rationality community was never particularly focused on medicine or epidemiology. And yet, we basically got everything about COVID-19 right and did so months ahead of the majority of government officials, journalists, and supposed experts.We started discussing the virus and raising the alarm in private back in January. By late February, as American health officials...2021-12-1217 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsThe Treacherous Path to Rationality by Jacob FalkovichWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Treacherous Path to Rationality, published by Jacob Falkovich on the LessWrong. Cross-posted, as always, from Putanumonit. Rats v. Plague The Rationality community was never particularly focused on medicine or epidemiology. And yet, we basically got everything about COVID-19 right and did so months ahead of the majority of government officials, journalists, and supposed experts. We started discussing the virus and raising the alarm in private back in January. By late February, as American health...2021-12-1217 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsSeeing the Smoke by Jacob FalkovichWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Seeing the Smoke, published by Jacob Falkovich on the LessWrong. Cross-posted from Putanumonit. COVID-19 could be pretty bad for you. It could affect your travel plans as countries impose quarantines and close off borders. It could affect you materially as supply chains are disrupted and stock markets are falling. Even worse: you could get sick and suffer acute respiratory symptoms. Worse than that: someone you care about may die, likely an elderly relative. But the...2021-12-1208 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsSeeing the Smoke by Jacob FalkovichWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.This is: Seeing the Smoke, published by Jacob Falkovich on the LessWrong.Cross-posted from Putanumonit.COVID-19 could be pretty bad for you. It could affect your travel plans as countries impose quarantines and close off borders. It could affect you materially as supply chains are disrupted and stock markets are falling. Even worse: you could get sick and suffer acute respiratory symptoms. Worse than that: someone you care about may die, likely an elderly relative.But the...2021-12-1208 min

The Nonlinear Library: LessWrong Top PostsCurated conversations with brilliant rationalists by spencergWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists, published by spencerg on the LessWrong. Since August 2020 I've been recording conversations with brilliant and insightful rationalists, effective altruists (and people adjacent to or otherwise connected somehow to those communities). If you're an avid reader of this site, I suspect you will recognize many of the names of those I've spoken to. Since I suspect some LessWrong readers will appreciate these conversations, here is a curated list with links, organized...2021-12-1111 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