'Date Me' Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love

The tweet landed like a burp on a first date: a little awkward, potentially endearing, maybe a good story to tell later. Chris Olah, a neural network engineer for a company called AnthropicAI and a former Thiel Foundation fellow, observed out loud on Wednesday, "Normal online dating seems pretty suboptimal. Recently, I've seen several people experiment with public'date me' docs--I think this is a really interesting experiment in alternatives, enabling long-form, earnest dating profiles." Olah linked to his own Date Me doc in his tweet. Olah is 29, with the grin and just-finished-hiking complexion of someone even younger. The title of his Google Doc gets right to the point: "Male, Straight, 5'7", Monogamous, Wants Kids."