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I want to compile all of my twitter threads that touch on what I care about in a romantic partnership / spiritual collaboration.
This is largely for my own reference.

However, it occurs to me that a bunch of disparate threads, each of which was alive when I wrote it, and each dealing with a different facet, might in aggregate, be a good way of conveying the ephemeral thing-ness of my experience.
I'm increasingly resistant to try and describe what I want in this domain in any kind of top-down way, because when I try, my descriptions often feel "flat" to me, and more-often-than-not I feel missed or projected on.

Maybe this will work better?
[I'll continue to add to this, as I write more of these, if I write more of these.]
One description of what sort of people I would like to go on dates with:

(Also, my muddled conflictedness about physical attractiveness.)

A long, branching, conversation about the game theory of "the matching game", and the circumstances under which it is mostly cooperative or mostly adversarial:

The way the aliveness of what I care about seems to slip out of my grasp, but I act in line with it anyway, out of self-trust. And what to do about the whole situation:

My asking how asexual people go from "not knowing a person" to "being in a relationship with them", since in my experience and observation, approximately the only way that happens is if people live together for months first:

Comments on the ever expanding inferential divide that comes with growth and re-ontologizing, or at least the kind of growth and re-ontologizing that I'm doing:

On my relationship to the spiritual dimension of my altruism. (This might not seem related, but for me, it is EXTREMELY connected):

The people that you spend the most time with are who you merge with, and this is especially true of romantic partnerships:

On a recent shift in my orientation to this whole thing, with some threads of how the romantic thing is tied to the ambition of my work.

[I forgot about this one.]

A response to a thread that triggered me and annoyed me, about settling, and about how romantic relationships intertwine with personal development.

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Is that true, or is it mainly/only Critch who thinks this?
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Facebook and twitter source their content from users and get their revenue from adds.

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Cost is fixed, and revenue is variable.
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Unlike serving webpages of user-generated content, running inference on their AI models is a cost. They only have so many GPUs.
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