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The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently playing the same game with my health insurance, who suggest linking my watch health metrics to "boost my health score". (I'm currently bronze and I could be at Silver! Someone must have watched the gamification TED talk). Not wanting my insurer to have that data presumably to them means I'm unfit, rather than skeptical of what they're going to do with it

First they have to know or infer with reasonable certainty that you have a fitness tracker to even attempt a further inference that you're not sharing the data because you're lazy. So if they somehow can profile you well enough to know that you already lost the privacy game.

Not at all; it's in their best interests to lump the "no data provided" bucket somewhere around the average, perhaps below as an incentive to provide the data. They don't have to know if you have a fitness tracker at all to enact such a policy.

Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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post #9

> Already, some apps do this by learning patterns in who we left and right swipe on, the same way Netflix makes recommendations from the movies we’ve liked in the past. Netflix recommendations are utterly bad. Musk et al. warn us constantly about "AI" and its dangers, but so far AI doesn't seem to work very well. Translating from Italian to English with Google Translate results in complete gibberish; Amazon (the othe…

Yes, I don't see the "brutally effective" part. It's just clickbait.

Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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post #3

To me the frightening thing is that people seem to be unable to differentiate between no data and the negative case. For example * No Fitbit data == "You're inactive * No Open source github commits == "you dont like code" * Few Facebook friends == "you dont have friends" * Few Instagram posts == "You dont do anything"

You're right, but I think you're overly simplifying the problem by ignoring the alternatives.

At one end of the spectrum, insurance companies, or dating apps, have essentially no data. So every person is charged equally, which I think is unfair (some might disagree).

To improve, companies collect data via a questionnaire. The obvious problem is people lie -- often unintentionally.

The next step is to use genuine data. And, there are certainly issues with that.

It's just not clear to me that the issues outweigh the problems with the alternative scenarios.

Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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Married, so I probably won’t be using that site anytime soon. I did meet my wife on OkCupid and I was doing the Ng ML class at the time and studying NLP and wrote a bit of my own “crawlers” to weed out people, find matches, and draft letters.

Intersting thing with this is I have 4 different twitter accounts for all of my different personalities:

- political

- work related

- life(dog) related

- shit posting

I kind of want to see the different matches I’d get based on my tweet taxonomy.

Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently playing the same game with my health insurance, who suggest linking my watch health metrics to "boost my health score". (I'm currently bronze and I could be at Silver! Someone must have watched the gamification TED talk). Not wanting my insurer to have that data presumably to them means I'm unfit, rather than skeptical of what they're going to do with it

Just get a dog and tie it to their collar. I'm joking of course, I do not condone insurance fraud.

In this case, you probably should :-)

Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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post #10

Dating apps/sites that employ the strategy of "get as much data as possible and match intelligently" have failed to compete for users against Tinder, the dumbest, simplest dating app that hardly does any intelligent matching at all. This implies that it's not the sophistication of a dating app that matters, it's the simplicity and ability to attract a userbase that in turn attracts a larger userbase etc in a virtuous…

Possible that you are not giving enough credit to Tinder's algorithm for sorting the profiles that you're presented with? There's a lot of information buried in how you swipe and message and edit.

Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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post #9

> Already, some apps do this by learning patterns in who we left and right swipe on, the same way Netflix makes recommendations from the movies we’ve liked in the past. Netflix recommendations are utterly bad. Musk et al. warn us constantly about "AI" and its dangers, but so far AI doesn't seem to work very well. Translating from Italian to English with Google Translate results in complete gibberish; Amazon (the othe…

Musk's hype of AI is just marketing.

Re: The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

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post #12

This is so wrong. Your partner is someone that balances you, not a mirror of you. Sure, you need a lot of similar interest, but also differences to get a relationship work, and those I don't yet see in these algoritms, not even remotely.

Aren't you assuming that they are matching on equality, not inferred compatibility?
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