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The Importance of Data in Matchmaking
I think there's a lot of over-optimization, and that's kind of a problem across almost any sector you'd want to talk about where data is being used. You're kind of optimizing for a short-term equilibrium, and it's much hard to measure the long-term. It could be like these pills that are sold, the online service, or like a placebo effect. The market would say that people find online services fairly useful.
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