Manifest Man: The Rationalist Quest to Optimize Human Seduction

Manifest Man

At the Manifest conference in Berkeley, I watched men attempt to use reinforcement learning to master seduction, treating human interaction like a coding problem. From imagining light beams to applying portfolio theory to friendship, attendees strive to become homo manifesticus by optimizing every facet of their lives, often with awkward and humorous results.

"One should not, Josh advised, give a fuck about fairness because fairness is a drag on returns."