Viliam_Bur sort of said this, but it doesn’t seem possible to outcompete the existing websites due to perverse incentives.
If I build a site optimizing for long term success, and another dating site optimizes for an intense honeymoon phase (which encourages people to come back and spread the word about the site) then I will lose. And optimizing for long term success is really hard since feedback occurs on the order of decades.
Of course I’m assuming that intense short term happiness and long term stability aren’t very highly correlated and I could be wrong. I’m also assuming that stability is desirable—I’d be curious if anyone disagrees.
Viliam_Bur sort of said this, but it doesn’t seem possible to outcompete the existing websites due to perverse incentives.
If I build a site optimizing for long term success, and another dating site optimizes for an intense honeymoon phase (which encourages people to come back and spread the word about the site) then I will lose. And optimizing for long term success is really hard since feedback occurs on the order of decades.
Of course I’m assuming that intense short term happiness and long term stability aren’t very highly correlated and I could be wrong. I’m also assuming that stability is desirable—I’d be curious if anyone disagrees.