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Would meeting strangers recommended to you by a deep learning bot be enriching??

ThrustVectoring 9y ago
This problem doesn't need deep learning. Take a friendship graph and order second-degree connections by number of mutual friends (descending).
- Profan 9y ago
  I think in common tongue this might be called a "party".
- VLM 9y ago
  That might be a good strategy to locate proto-friends, but they wouldn't be strangers (depending on how much you hang out with 1st order friends...) A deep learning bot would select strangers based on likelihood of enjoying each others company in a superficial manner along with certain deeper criteria... does deep learning bot feel you need to meet more people in your political echo chamber or meet someone far outside, assuming your religious views permit it (which of course deep learning bot knows intimately... perhaps better than you know yourself...)? Likewise hobbies, does deep learning bot feel I need to meet nature hiking buddy #9 or does deep learning bot feel I should branch out into anerobic hobbies like weight lifting or should I stick with the nature theme and meet gardening buddy #1 or ... If you want to get ominous does deep learning bot feel I should go to bible study tonight or should I have a midlife fling and if so does deep learning bot have suggested marriage counselors that fit my wife and I or does deep learning bot think we should skip right to the AI matched divorce lawyers? I would advise the authors of deep learning bots study centuries of astrology. Astrology is not so much bad astronomy as its ancient psychotherapy. Jupiter isn't telling you much, but a good astrologer knows all about how to cheer up someone in a deep funk over a relationship problem.
- okintheory 9y ago
  As a colleague of mine observed: If Joe and I have 100 mutual friends on Facebook, but aren't friends, that might be evidence we don't like each other.

This problem doesn't need deep learning. Take a friendship graph and order second-degree connections by number of mutual friends (descending).

Profan 9y ago
I think in common tongue this might be called a "party".
VLM 9y ago
That might be a good strategy to locate proto-friends, but they wouldn't be strangers (depending on how much you hang out with 1st order friends...) A deep learning bot would select strangers based on likelihood of enjoying each others company in a superficial manner along with certain deeper criteria... does deep learning bot feel you need to meet more people in your political echo chamber or meet someone far outside, assuming your religious views permit it (which of course deep learning bot knows intimately... perhaps better than you know yourself...)? Likewise hobbies, does deep learning bot feel I need to meet nature hiking buddy #9 or does deep learning bot feel I should branch out into anerobic hobbies like weight lifting or should I stick with the nature theme and meet gardening buddy #1 or ... If you want to get ominous does deep learning bot feel I should go to bible study tonight or should I have a midlife fling and if so does deep learning bot have suggested marriage counselors that fit my wife and I or does deep learning bot think we should skip right to the AI matched divorce lawyers? I would advise the authors of deep learning bots study centuries of astrology. Astrology is not so much bad astronomy as its ancient psychotherapy. Jupiter isn't telling you much, but a good astrologer knows all about how to cheer up someone in a deep funk over a relationship problem.
okintheory 9y ago
As a colleague of mine observed: If Joe and I have 100 mutual friends on Facebook, but aren't friends, that might be evidence we don't like each other.