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How Singapore's government-run dating service works

255 points · 369 comments · danielfoster

  1. podocarp · · focus · HN ↗
    Entirely dismissing how important looks, vibes, personality are in relationships. Not even dating -- if someone smells, you're not going to be incentives to make friends with them. This seems to me to just be trodding the same pseudoscientific route as MBTI personality tests, trying to condense a person into a list of multiple choice questions. That will never work. No algorithm can do it. Social interaction is not a solved game.
    1. dominicq · · focus · HN ↗
      The point isn't to be a complete solution to social interaction, the point is to provide a significantly better than random sampling and pairing.

      You can then still apply your usual filters afterwards, such as smell, looks, vibes.

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