This is pretty wild to see, but also not surprising.
It’s interesting to think about how couples used to meet from the perspective of Web of Trust: couples used to meet through their personal Web of Trust (family, school, friends, church, etc), but now it’s primarily online.
Not surprising that divorce rates have increased over the same time period.
No WoT >> no social vetting >> worse couple pairing https://v.nostr.build/iRBvMIDmSMRGPknY.mp4
Correlation does not imply Causation
Too many choices often leads to dissatisfaction.
Yuppp, my boyfriend has been my brother’s friend since middle school, he was loved by all my family before I even knew him. It has worked remarkably 🥰
I was introduced to Carla by a guy who had known her since middle school. He was on my dorm floor and we quickly got really close. I still remember the first time he took me to meet his friends from his home town… “you’re going to like these girls, but you’re going to love Carla.”
He was right.
He was a groomsman at our wedding, and it’s safe to say his introduction to Carla was the most pivotal moment of my life.
Web of Trust matters.
it’s so great that you guys are so lucky in this way.
it seems that it’s not quite a generalizable theory you mentioned. divorce rates peaked a while ago (when meeting via wot was the only option).
People also have forgotten how to make friends outside of Internet.
Younger generations are losing their offline communication skills and it can’t be good.
the basic algos of people matching are (I assume) much less sophisticated than the next word/character prediction functions of llm.
would correlation of your divorce rate increase to increase in meeting through those online people-matching algos support argument the code behind the online dating apps is a failure.
if so, wondering why we would expect the code behind the ai/llm, a much more complex endeavor, would do any better.
A great take on this phenomena
There is a massive opportunity to use Nostr to build a kind of dating app where people can own their own data. I’d have to think about it for a while for how exactly it could be build, but someone’s gonna kill it with this idea at some point.
Much like Amazon reviews of 55lb drums of lube, wolf shirts, and sugar fee gummy bears, it needs to have public date reviews so we can have endless reading enjoyment.
Friends of friends, thats how my wife and I met 🫂
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The internet is a very powerful tool. use it wisely, it can generate all kinds of opportunity.
keep an eye aout for those logical fallacy landmines yo : )
correlation v causation
Bitcoin fixes this
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Bitcoin meet-ups appear under represented.
This is why I only date my employees
Crazy to watch that online bar jump from bottom to top, and likely won't see it come down again.
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