r/JordanPeterson

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The main criticisms of Peterson were that he pretends to be a Christian for money, that he can't answer simple questions, and that he's the smart person for dumb people.

How would you respond to these criticisms? No brigading please, read the rules.

https://www.themidwesterner.news/2026/08/docs-abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-for-designated-terror-group-iara-that-provided-direct-financial-support-to-osama-bin-laden-taliban-hamas/?__cf_chl_tk=fhz2o6eshoBK262dORkP7IgkcqyVNiCdZPN8BHewaY0-1787175967-1.0.1.1-EJpqL_lKOKd.nigydDeQLUgDooS4bqV_emSHJCrF.oY

The globalists are Satanic, and the media you consume has been compromised.

I spent the last several months trying to understand why online dating appears to produce so much frustration despite giving people access to vastly more potential partners than any previous matching system.

I eventually came to think the interesting explanation isn't primarily cultural or gender-specific. It's a market-design problem.

The starting point is thickness.

Matching markets generally benefit when more participants enter because the probability of finding a compatible counterparty rises. But beyond some point thickness produces congestion: too many potential transactions, inadequate mechanisms for evaluating them, and difficulty sending credible signals through the resulting noise.

Dating apps appear to combine several features that make this unusually severe:

1. The market is heavily asymmetric.

The large heterosexual platforms have substantially more men than women. That creates scarcity on one side and congestion on the other.

The same marketplace is therefore experienced as two almost opposite products.

2. Signaling is nearly costless.

A swipe or like carries almost no cost.

When expressing interest is cheap, broadly signaling interest can become individually rational. But aggregate cheap signaling destroys information content.

The receiving side then gets more approaches but less information about which approaches represent serious intent.

3. Congestion changes selection behavior.

Experimental research on online dating has found that continued exposure to large sets of potential partners makes participants progressively more rejecting.

In randomized experiments, acceptance probability fell roughly 27% from the first potential partner shown to the last.

The options themselves weren't getting worse.

Exposure to the option set changed the decision-maker.

This is the part I find most interesting: abundance can reduce successful selection rather than improve it.

4. The scarce side adapts too.

When matches become difficult to obtain, the rational response isn't necessarily to continue evaluating every match as a potential long-term partner.

A scarce match can be reclassified into a lower-commitment interaction.

So the congested side becomes more selective while the scarce side becomes less willing to treat the matches that clear as serious candidates.

Neither side needs to be behaving irrationally or maliciously.

Each side is responding rationally to its own incentives.

Yet the aggregate market clears worse.

5. The intermediary has a peculiar objective function.

Historically, intermediaries in courtship—friends, family, community, school, church, neighborhood—had reputational exposure to the outcome.

Modern platforms largely disintermediated those institutions.

But the replacement intermediary has an unusual economic characteristic:

Its revenue is earned while the search continues.

A successful terminal match removes two customers from the market.

That doesn't require anyone inside the company to deliberately prevent successful relationships. It simply means that engagement and successful clearing point in different directions as optimization targets.

6. We therefore measure almost everything except clearing.

Dating companies can measure registrations, active users, likes, matches, conversations, retention, payers and revenue per payer with enormous precision.

What remains remarkably difficult for an outsider to determine is the obvious denominator:

What percentage of people entering the system successfully leave it because they found the durable relationship they wanted?

Hinge is the especially interesting case because the brand promise is literally Designed to Be Deleted.

Yet the public operating metrics overwhelmingly measure people remaining, returning, engaging and paying.

There is some offline feedback—Hinge's "We Met" feature can ask whether a match produced a date and whether someone wants another date—but that is very different from longitudinally measuring relationship formation, duration, permanent successful exits and reactivation after dissolution.

That brought me to a broader hypothesis:

The public "gender war" around online dating may partly be the social symptom of a market-design failure.

Two populations experience radically different sides of the same mechanism.

Both possess accurate information about their own experience.

Neither sees the system producing the other side's experience.

So each concludes that the other population is the problem.

I ended up writing a much longer piece tracing this through matching-market economics, signaling theory, behavioral psychology, the history of courtship, the disappearance of social intermediaries, and eventually the financial statements of Match Group.

The last part became a public-equity short thesis because I realized the sociology generates financial predictions.

If the underlying marketplace is structurally impaired, eventually I would expect to see:

• payer attrition;
• heavier monetization of the participants who remain;
• difficulty expanding the total category;
• growth increasingly sourced from geographic expansion rather than deeper successful adoption;
• and eventually a lower terminal valuation for the companies operating it.

That makes the public company an interesting way of putting an otherwise difficult sociological hypothesis under an empirical clock.

The full essay and sources are here:

https://dljlevfin.substack.com/p/the-undisclosed-denominator

I'm especially interested in criticism of the behavioral mechanism rather than the stock call.

Where does the causal chain break?

Is congestion actually the right framework?

Does cheap signaling necessarily degrade matching efficiency here?

And most importantly: what metric would you use to distinguish a dating marketplace that generates enormous engagement from one that actually clears successfully?

Btw, the painting was made by a muslim artist. The people who cancelled her are the same who would've stoned the painter. Dystopian.

Here's the full article for anyone interested :

https://newlinesmag.com/writers/christiane-gruber/

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EDIT :

There's a VERY similar case that happened in France a few years ago and ended up with the teacher being killed :

In 2020, a school/HS history teacher, Samuel Paty, showed a caricature of prophet mohamed (police be upon him) in the context of a class about freedom of speech. He told students that 'if any of you doesn't want to see that image, you're allowed to close your eyes for a few seconds or leave the class for a minute. You won't be penalised'.

The next day, a muslim student of Samuel Paty (who wasn't even there for that class because she used to skip school all the time) received a temporary school expulsion due to her class-skipping habit. When her dad, Brahim Chnina, asked her why the hell she was expelled, she told him it was because her teacher showed a picture of prophet Mashallah and ordered all muslim students to leave the class (which she refused to do). That second part is litteraly unbelivable as french ppl are way too scared of offending muslims since the charlie hebdo and bataclan attacks to do anything like that.

Daddy Chnina, who was a ''respectable'' and '''moderate''' muslim (by that i mean he was never involved in any religion-related unlawful event - despite his history of verbal agressivity when we didn't get what he wanted) was very very mad about all that. But don't worry, he did what any french parent would've done in that situation : He went to the school's office, terrorised the school director and secretary by knocking aggressively to their door and yelling, continued to knock and yell until these 2 women (who had locked themselves in a room out of fear) opened him the door and then, once he was in, pressured them into alerting the minister of education that one of their teachers engaged in a 'violation of republican school's laïcity'. Father Chnina also published Samuel Paty's name, school's name and alleged crime on a facebook group for moderate muslims.

Turns out one of these '''moderates''', Abdoulillah Something, was a 18yo tchetchen aspiring-terrorist (whose dad had btw, been expelled from France due to conjugal violence). He choose Samuel as his 1rst victim. A few days later, he stabbed Samuel 19 times with a knife and then beheaded him. The doc who examined Samuel's body couldn't tell if he was already dead when he was beheaded.

Daddy Chnina was sentenced to 13 years of jail (meaning that he would've been released after 2 months with a slap on the wrist) and he somehow still had the audacity to appeal of the decision. In 2026, he was finally sentenced to 10 years of jail. In other words, he'll be released in no time for good behaviour.

This is what Hollywood does to those who sell their soul…