Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

You meet a future spouse on an online dating service. The algorithms that implement that service take note of your marriage. As the years go by, and you're still together, the algorithms increasingly apply what seemed to be the correlations between you and your spouse to matching other prospective couples. When some of them also get married, it is automatically calculated that the correlations from your case were particularly relevant to the recommendations. You get extra nanopayments as a result.

oh god ... for one, this does not work economically. if implemented in a way that it actually provided a substantial amount of money to the creators of the data, it would destroy the dating service's business model. or they would just do their best to pay out as little as possible (since they can choose the amount). what incentive do they have to actually pay out as much value as they've extracted?

surely he must know all this ... is he being deliberately obtuse? please tell me he is.

—p.274 How Will We Earn and Spend? (269) by Jaron Lanier 7 years, 2 months ago