Meta: I recently entered the dating market, so naturally I have lots of random thoughts on the subject which you all get to suffer through for a while. Your usual diet of dry math and agency theory will resume shortly.

Obviously the phrase “true love” has been so thoroughly overdone in so much fiction as to lose all substantive meaning. That's what happens when we leave important conceptual work to would-be poets. We’re here to reclaim the term, because there's a useful concept which is very naturally described by the words “true” and “love”.

You know that thing where, when you’re smitten by someone, they seem more awesome than they really are? Your brain plays up all the great things about them, and plays down all the bad things, and makes up stories about how great they are in other ways too? And then you get even more smitten [...]

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