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Loweren

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Loweren

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Loweren is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 6 times across 6 issues between July 21, 2021 and May 08, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Loweren writes:”; “Loweren , who writes Optimized Dating”; “I’m Loweren, a biology PhD doing photography and dating advice on the side”. It most often appears alongside Japan, Scott, America.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 6
  • Issue count: 6
  • First seen: July 21, 2021
  • Last seen: May 08, 2025

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Highlights From The Comments On "Crazy Like Us"
July 21, 2021 · Original source
Loweren writes:
Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems
January 27, 2022 · Original source
Loweren, who writes Optimized Dating, says:
Inline links: Loweren, Optimized Dating
ACX Grants ++: The First Half
February 03, 2022 · Original source
#27: Reverse-Engineer Dating Photo Quality I'm Loweren, a biology PhD doing photography and dating advice on the side. Some of you might know me from the Optimized Dating Discord server or the corresponding blog: https://optimizeddating.substack.com A keystone piece of advice in our community is to put more effort into making better dating photos, and to use the photo rating service Photofeeler to quantify the performance of each photo. This advice was helpful for many people, however there's one problem: it's not clear which factors make the photo perform better or worse on Photofeeler, as the developers are not keen on sharing the analytics. I will attempt to reverse-engineer the most important factors that make the dating photo look better by testing various factors (camera distance, focal length, aperture size, smile etc.) against the control photos using multiple subjects. I estimate that for each $80 in donations I can test 2 factors using 3 test subjects. I already have the first batch of photos ready to be tested. Results will be published on the blog as they come, which will hopefully help more people take better dating photos. My PayPal: https://paypal.me/seeelegance
Highlights From The Comments On Brain Waves
November 08, 2022 · Original source
Loweren writes:
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Highlights From The Comments On Kidney Donation
November 07, 2023 · Original source
Loweren (blog) writes:
Inline links: Loweren, blog
Highlights From The Comments On AI Geoguessr
May 08, 2025 · Original source
And my favorite test was Loweren on the ACX Discord, who gave o3 this challenge: