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Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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post #15

Automate the matching, then the conversations, then the meet-up schedule. TinderPro could be a paid service built on top that has you swipe left/right for x pictures and then takes it from there and does all the rest of the legwork. You pay $$ per month and based on your settings, it schedules dates for you (based on openings on your linked calendar app).

This would really take the pressure off asking someone out.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

#142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you trying to sound like an asshole, or is that just who you are?

why, because i don't desperately sleep with all the girls that I meet in my life, just because they show interest? if not obvious from what I wrote, that's EXACTLY kind of thing I am not looking for, and for me, and few friends it's exactly the kind of thing Tinder offers. All the guys and girls I know that behave like this, there are some deep(er) issues in their past, usually broken families, mostly missing/abusive…

> why, because i don't desperately sleep with all the girls that I meet in my life, just because they show interest?

No, because you describe people you don't know jack about just like that.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

#143
post #101

A person is not a face. Dating sites of all shades "sell" us a person at various levels of depth and according to our interests. Our interests can be deep, or can be shallow. Tinder is "selling" shallow+fun (Appearances, nearness, sexual adventure). Shallow + fun sells. Look at a magazine. Eigenfaces takes the idea a step forward. Automate shallow+fun+selection. Remember the vaporized alcohol craze ?

What's your point? Everyone knows Tinder is primarily for hookups and is shallow.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

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post #79
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The standard perception is that women are scarce and men are dime-a-dozen. I strongly suspect this might be true even in the gay dating scene (maybe someone qualified might weigh in on this hunch). Like in many social conventions, this scheme kind-of works as long as you subscribe to it. Men are supposed to be undiscerning, women are supposed to reject people like it's a bodily function. As long as you fall within th…

> The standard perception is that women are scarce and men are dime-a-dozen. > As long as you fall within that schema and pursue your partners in a way that confirms their social expectations, you're fine. I've never read such nonsense. This is straight out of the loser's playbook. People who think like this don't know their own value. I know women who complain about not being able to find any proper men, so a decent…

A lot of readers here come from the SF Bay Area, where single men who have their life together are being imported by the boat full, while single women are not. It creates a supply/demand imbalance and it does make dating more work here.

Other places might not have that problem. Dating was definitely more work in SF for me than my hometown.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

#147

How many of you folks have found a long lasting, good quality date via Tinder? Serious question, no pun intended. For me, albeit using it for only cca 6 months, it was useless. Same for people around me. Yes, I got tons of likes, many conversations, a few dates that could be more if wanted, but women available via this were mostly... uninteresting. I am a bit picky (I am quite sporty type, and silicone beauties whose…

I think your experience is not specific to tinder, but online dating in general. I had to go through a whole bunch of uninteresting before I found a few interesting people.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

#149
Reminds me of anaface.com (where they tell you how attractive you are based off of symmetry).

I'm married so this is just plain entertainment for me but I think there are some genuine use cases for this on the Tinder side of things. Think about it.

If Tinder knew your preferences and was able to analyze the faces of all the users nearest to you, it could make your feed so much more relevant. In the end, Tinder's success is directly proportional to the number of dates it sets up. Basically, the more "attractive" people you encounter in your feed, the more frequently users will engage with and return to the app. I'm biting off an idea that is too big for me to chew but I imagine huge potential here.

Re: Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

#150
So I've been using this for a few hours now. The automatic messaging is hilarious ("Lisa are you a fan of avocados?") and weirdly effective. Also, it's been showing me that my non-robot tinder game just sucks, and could be improved with the basic principles of flirting:

  no seriousness
  ambiguity and non-sequiturs get conversation going
  being bold and casual about the things you say
Basically, every message should communicate that you don't really give many fucks, and are playful.
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