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Mike Cantrell's avatar

Your work always stimulates my thought! My intuition is that it’s not that we need to abandon this algorithmic exercise ,but that we need to refine it to address the concerns you mention. Get busy!

Dawn Pegis's avatar

I know several who successfully found mates online, though yrs ago. As usual, AM exposes details (with statistics!) I could never imagine. Wow! Clearly disruptive to 'normal' family formation. (GREAT headline choice.) Though Silicon Valley may have had no ill intention (only their profit margin), there IS a spiritual enemy specifically intends to destroy ALL; family - what a perfect target.

Jerri Hinojosa's avatar

The algorithms fail to account for the human “knowing”, the instinct that says “this if the one?” That instinct has developed over millennia and has not been bottled up for sale. Safe, superficial algorithms have been sold as substitutes but they fail to capture the nuance of knowing which potential partner is a real fit. hr the

Jeffrey Krupa's avatar

Without tradition or taboos, technology has enabled women to form themselves into "Alfa Male harems". These men will bed them, but not commit to them, resulting in "All men are bastards" TikToks, unrealistic expectations, and the feeling of "settling" at the alter.