<story><title>The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen</title><url>https://www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-game-theory-of-seduction-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rendaw</author><text>Just a few weird things while reading this&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Unlike in the modern dating process, they cannot get to know a potential partner intimately before deciding whether or not to commit to a relationship.&lt;p&gt;Does intimacy somehow lend knowledge of whether someone&amp;#x27;s looking for a long term relationship?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Tinder data shows that men like 10 times more profiles than women do and that 1 in 50 of their likes leads to a match versus 2 out of 5 for women. Faced with many men happy to date them, women have to identify the ones who may be willing to invest in a long-term relationship.&lt;p&gt;This seems to be saying that men send out lots of likes because they want to play around... but I thought men sent out lots of likes because if they didn&amp;#x27;t they wouldn&amp;#x27;t even get a single match, which doesn&amp;#x27;t say anything about interest in long term relationships.</text></comment>
<story><title>The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen</title><url>https://www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-game-theory-of-seduction-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hinglenkle</author><text>I was screamed down by an entire classroom in university for my interpretation of “pride and prejudice”; though I was one of only 5 of the 25 students who read it.&lt;p&gt;Jane Austen herself lived her life unwed, and the character whom shared her name in P&amp;amp;P also finishes the novel unwed.&lt;p&gt;It is my opinion that P&amp;amp;P is Austen’s way of saying “if these are the players and this is the game then I am uninterested in taking part”.&lt;p&gt;From this reading, instead of Mr Darcy being the perfect man he’s the perfect example of why Jane chose to forgo participation in the marriage practice of the day.&lt;p&gt;TFA’s focus on finances, I feel, is just another example of one such reason provided by Austen to highlight the insincere process.</text></comment>