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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

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  1. aurareturn · · focus · HN ↗
    Maybe part of the solution for any country dealing with low marriage rate is to ban all private dating apps and only government issued apps are allowed.

    Private ones will always prioritize profit which means they want you to keep using the app which means they don’t want you to find a partner.

    Modern dating apps makes it so that an average woman will have unlimited choices but the average man will have next to none. Before dating apps, they could have been a good match. But with dating apps, the woman has unlimited higher value men. How could these average women marry an average man if she’s being taken on dates constantly by top 5% men?

    The problem is that these higher value men will not commit because they also have unlimited options.

    Even if she marries an average man later in life, she will feel resentment towards him. Therefore, these women just choose to stay single. This is especially viable now because women often are more educated and have good income.

    Now we can see why young men are increasingly becoming far right and longing for far more conservative world.

    Modern dating apps are just manifesting natural instincts on steroids. I don’t blame either party. Just an observation.

    1. kylehotchkiss · · focus · HN ↗
      o__O my url bar doesn’t currently say Reddit? This argument feels red pilled and not curious nor productive. Women have plenty of valid frustrations with the dating pool. I don’t live in SF but the last woman whom I talked to there told me many of y’all just have mattresses on the floor and like no bed frame. There are places to improve fellas

      Yeah, dating apps are problematic. No, nobody here is going to fix that with another stupid app. But I think a lot of these “meet with a group of strangers at dinner” biz concepts are cool and gonna try some soon.

      1. aurareturn · · focus · HN ↗
        It’s just reality when all the internet virtue signaling is turned off.

        I’m not blaming anyone. I think all parties are behaving as they should.

        1. saagarjha · · focus · HN ↗
          I see a party here who is not behaving as they should and it's the one I am replying to.
          1. akimbostrawman · · focus · HN ↗
            How dare someone not agreeing with you.
            1. saagarjha · · focus · HN ↗
              Yeah that’s definitely my issue here
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