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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

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  1. pydry · · focus · HN ↗
    this is their third attempt at a government run dating service I think :/

    it's low key kind of funny how they keep reaching for the quick fix to their collapsed birth rates instead of changing the things that would cost real money or make them less desirable to foreign investors.

    1. aw4rzs · · focus · HN ↗
      What things could Singapore change to fix their birth rates? Empirically, nothing that any country is trying is working.
      1. Der_Einzige · · focus · HN ↗
        Importing lots of white dudes. WMAF literally is extremely pro-natalist (massively higher WMAF babies than other pairings per-capita):

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aznidentity&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1s184vi&#x2F;cdc_data_on_the_parents_of_interracial_babies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;aznidentity&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1s184vi&#x2F;cdc_da...

        Unironically Mao&#x2F;Nixon and Henry Kissenger almost put us into a hilarious world where we (the USA) would have &quot;imported&quot; ~10 million Chinese women. Mao unironically proposed this and his argument about why it would have hurt us is that they &quot;have too many children!&quot;:

        &quot;Chairman Mao: (Laughing) Those are honest words.

        Dr. Kissinger: This is our position.

        Chairman Mao: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million. (Laughter, particularly among the women.)

        Dr. Kissinger: The Chairman is improving his offer.

        Chairman Mao: By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children and our children are too many. (Laughter)

        [Page 132] Dr. Kissinger: It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it.&quot;

        - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;history.state.gov&#x2F;historicaldocuments&#x2F;frus1969-76v18&#x2F;d12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;history.state.gov&#x2F;historicaldocuments&#x2F;frus1969-76v18...

        1. vuurmot · · focus · HN ↗
          Not often countries want to degrade their culture like that by importing other cultures to have children with their women

          Maybe the europeans are an exception

          1. akimbostrawman · · focus · HN ↗
            At this point it&#x27;s as much of a fetish as it&#x27;s a religion.
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