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I’d love to start a conversation here about attempting to solve this in a very narrowly defined place as an experiment. Since this is HN, I nominate San Francis
by dilippkumar 4y ago
I’d love to start a conversation here about attempting to solve this in a very narrowly defined place as an experiment. Since this is HN, I nominate San Francisco.
My hypothesis is that the bandwidth required to present oneself and assess another person is larger than what fits in the self_awareness -> profile_creation -> dating_app_algorithm -> profile_selection -> personality_model_creation -> model_evaluation pipeline.
We already know that a lot of communication happens non verbally. There are other signals we care about: do this person’s friends like them, etc. There are questions about compatible value systems and one’s relationship to risk, money, independence etc.
If there is a technology solution here, I doubt that it looks like a collection of profiles.
Anecdotally, online gaming and niche reddit communities have a somewhat high success rate at creating friendships. One possible way to use this model is a dating app that lets you solve puzzles with another person real time instead of swiping on profile pictures?
I don’t know. I’m throwing ideas here to get a conversation started.
- f-securus 4y agoMaybe have a dating app that hides photos until a certain level of communication/time occurs beforehand.... Does such a thing already exists?
- dilippkumar 4y agoI haven’t checked, but my intuition is that removing photos reduces the available bandwidth, not increases it. Perhaps a dating app that only allows photos taken with the app, that ensures no filters or edits were done to the image probably increases the bandwidth. But then, that’s an antifeature - I doubt people would want to use such an app.