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If a giant like Facebook had bought Match Group and Tinder, would it be possible for it to manipulate dating and thus breeding people up to statistically signif

by Eli_P 8y ago

If a giant like Facebook had bought Match Group and Tinder, would it be possible for it to manipulate dating and thus breeding people up to statistically significant scale? I feel it like being "@" in somebody's Dwarf Fortress. World's so narcissistic.

CodeSheikh 8y ago
What makes you think Match Group and Tinder are not already statistically matching people based on their algorithms? They are part of IAC and IAC is a giant publishing conglomerate based out of NYC.
- Eli_P 8y ago
  Yikes! There's only hope they'll add some paid service where I can find love and hunt deer with a crossbow in special national park, wild way. Just like those two domains, wild and artificial, from Huxley's Brave New World.
mtberatwork 8y ago
If they match too precisely though wouldn't they lose out on tons of recurring revenue?
- Eli_P 8y ago
  You are correct, Tinder is designed keep you on hook, sustain finger-swiping reflex, and all that. But I've been pondering from a zoomed-out, conspiracy-ish perspective. If FB merges with dating apps, I bet there will be no premium accounts at all, as revenue from them won't matter much. Because, having FB's stat-models of social groups combined with dating app leverage, they can be forced to gravitate towards or divided not only by superficial forces such as personalized news-feeds and ads, but your children potentially will become a content for you and the product for population, recycle. The biological function of love is to reproduce as many DNA of yours as possible, or support closest neighborhood DNAs as well. It is interesting what it will be like when we'll have substituted natural love with statistically predicted one? We've been doing this already with politics and culture, only this time it will be more real-time.
searine 8y ago
"Matching" in dating apps is old world thinking. "Swiping" has largely replaced computational matching because it outsources the decision to the user and allows for high-through-put decision making. Users set a radius and judge everyone who meets their basic criteria in that radius (or for the lucky, select from the cattle-call of already received likes). Yes, these apps could be limiting the raw number of swipe opportunities, but this would probably just turn users away altogether for lack of viable matches that fit their criteria.

by Eli_P 8y ago

CodeSheikh 8y ago

What makes you think Match Group and Tinder are not already statistically matching people based on their algorithms? They are part of IAC and IAC is a giant publishing conglomerate based out of NYC.

Eli_P 8y ago
Yikes! There's only hope they'll add some paid service where I can find love and hunt deer with a crossbow in special national park, wild way. Just like those two domains, wild and artificial, from Huxley's Brave New World.

mtberatwork 8y ago

If they match too precisely though wouldn't they lose out on tons of recurring revenue?

Eli_P 8y ago
You are correct, Tinder is designed keep you on hook, sustain finger-swiping reflex, and all that. But I've been pondering from a zoomed-out, conspiracy-ish perspective. If FB merges with dating apps, I bet there will be no premium accounts at all, as revenue from them won't matter much. Because, having FB's stat-models of social groups combined with dating app leverage, they can be forced to gravitate towards or divided not only by superficial forces such as personalized news-feeds and ads, but your children potentially will become a content for you and the product for population, recycle. The biological function of love is to reproduce as many DNA of yours as possible, or support closest neighborhood DNAs as well. It is interesting what it will be like when we'll have substituted natural love with statistically predicted one? We've been doing this already with politics and culture, only this time it will be more real-time.

searine 8y ago

"Matching" in dating apps is old world thinking. "Swiping" has largely replaced computational matching because it outsources the decision to the user and allows for high-through-put decision making. Users set a radius and judge everyone who meets their basic criteria in that radius (or for the lucky, select from the cattle-call of already received likes). Yes, these apps could be limiting the raw number of swipe opportunities, but this would probably just turn users away altogether for lack of viable matches that fit their criteria.