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Rationality Education and Dating (with Jacob Falkovich)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Unappealing Long-Term Feedback Loop

Tinder is optimized to maximize people on the site who see ads or who buy subscriptions. It is not maximized by people being matched with someone of roughly equal attractiveness, and very compatible personalities and interests. I get the sense that the biggest winners on Tinder are the super attractive males,. And also that what it does is creates this really appealing short-term feedback loop with a really extremely unappealing long-term feedbackloop.

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