The criterion for including people for an all-paid Dinner Party, for instance, should at the very minimum be the people whom I can call and I am sure who will pick up the phone. This then by definition includes almost all, nah, all of my male friends and excludes most of the, if not all, ex-girls I have dated before. Then there is the proximity of location constraint. Plus, inclusion of anyone who invited me to their past celebrations and I know who maybe able to join for this one. Or somebody with whom I was close either in proximity of location or friendship or both or with whom I spent a lot of time together. Now, on top of these, in order to reduce the list to the most closest of the close current friends, I can impose the following additional requirements:
1) Should have met them atleast once this year or in the past 6 months, whichever is longest.
2) We should have had atleast one 1-1 meeting, preferably outing for >1 hour, either for lunch, coffee or dinner or something else.
3) People with whom I enjoyed some unique experience are automatically prioritized.
4) Girls are always preferred for inclusion in parties.
5) There should be atleast some minimal non-effort-requiring prospect of meeting again in the next six months.
6) How likely are they to actually join the party? Do they have a history of last-minute cancellations? Will they be able to allocate sufficient time on the designated date and time? Have they proven anytime in the past that they are capable of doing this for you?
7) If they have helped you in some way recently, going back to the past six months, (or earlier, if it was something really crucial), then they are prioritized. However, in this case, I would already have been keeping in touch with them, so they would already have been included by one of the criterion above.
8) How important will their inclusion in the party be for you?
9) Are they really attractive? Then I should atleast ask them out!
10) How many of them are likely to know how many of the others invited??
This then can comprise an Algorithm for selecting who to invite to your parties and events, if there's any limitation on the number of participants there can be, and we wish to find the minimum number of closest friends to send invitations. Also, if the women are the majority participants, that reduces the overall cost too, because they eat less, haha~
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