I finally made a dating doc today.

It's here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dIqZm80FXnhPscSQ0iTmLiY6UwTrfrV82HUBmlRC9Pw/edit

Ben Weinstein-Raun's Dating Doc

Ben Weinstein-Raun’s Dating Doc (September 2023) (Photos are in chronological order: the last is the most recent, taken in late August 2023) Hi! I’m Ben. I’m not actively looking for new people to date, but I’m open to meeting up and seeing how things go, if this doc doesn’t scare you away! B...

This market will resolve positively if:

1. I embark on an unambiguous date before midnight on New Year's 2023/2024 (i.e. a New Years' Eve date would count as long as it begins before midnight), such that:
2. I'm confident that the date would not have happened without the dating doc. e.g. the date is with someone I met because they reached out having seen the doc, or with someone I already knew, but who reports that they wouldn't have wanted to go on a date before seeing the doc.

Dates that counterfactually depend on other things that transitively depend on the doc will also cause the market to resolve positively. e.g. if I go on a date because someone is trying to manipulate this market, that also counts.

A couple of possibly relevant facts:

• I've been on 1 date with a new person in the last two months, and about 3 in the last year.

• I'm a very occasional user of dating apps, and I have never made a dating doc before.

• I made this doc because someone responded to my anonymous feedback form basically asking for me to make a dating doc, to help them decide whether they were interested in me.

• Within a couple of hours of making the doc, I received anonymous feedback that I'd look better with a different haircut.