Scott’s Search

Scott Alexander got married!  Congratulations to the happy couple.  And true to form, Scott takes a rationalist approach to the whole experience, starting with details on his search algorithm:

[M] recommendation for those of you in the same place I was ten years ago is: accrue micromarriages.

Micromarriages come from this post by Chris Olah. They’re a riff on micromorts, a one-in-a-million chance of dying. Risk analysts use micromorts to compare how dangerous different things are: scuba diving i...