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mircea_popescu: so this
okcupid thing has a thing where you answer premade questions (apparently there was a feature to add questions but they scuttled it silently, over time). leaving aside the questions are almost universally fucking dumb,
mircea_popescu: now i gotta make an
okcupid acct, see what the fatties are like.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes match.com, plenty of fish,
okcupid tinder and the rest of the lesser known implementations of the social media dating scam are all owned by iac.
☟︎ trinque: there's also
OkCupid if you want the pretense of personality involved
mircea_popescu: jurov guy made a reddit post complaining about how
okcupid canned his acct.
cazalla: he actually took a few days off of
okcupid because of it.. "Naturally, I reported that conversation for abusive behaviour and I took a break from the site for a few days because frankly I was not expecting that and was a bit shaken from the experience."
mircea_popescu: anyway, the differences between me and justusranvier dude are amusing. fetlife vs
okcupid, the locus of butthurt, etc.
cazalla: i guess women don't want to hear libertarian shit on
okcupid BingoBoingo: ryan-c: You know keyservers exist in a much more user friendly form than that abomination make by the
okcupid people
mircea_popescu: but good for the sheeple to find out that
okcupid and tinder are owned by the same thing.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Related: We just detected that you’re now among the most attractive people on
OkCupid. << Profile picture is a Llama. Not metaphorically or anything. Picture is actual shaggy Llama. << ahahaha wut.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nah. Bitcoin accepting merchant "
Okcupid". Simply probing a data aggregator that happens to accept BTC.
BingoBoingo: Related: We just detected that you’re now among the most attractive people on
OkCupid. << Profile picture is a Llama. Not metaphorically or anything. Picture is actual shaggy Llama.
assbot: From
okcupid (just to also shoot down my own insistence about how good it is!) I - Pastebin.com
Shakespeare: " the most troubling soundbite arises when Goldman asks if
OkCupid would consider bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments.
mircea_popescu: We selected 526,000
OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people's profile essays (280 million words in total!) << ok this makes me fucking curious.
mircea_popescu: this
okcupid stuff is a goldmine. "Another inquiry that had unexpected results: we asked 252,900 straight people have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex?". men : 7% did and enjoyed it ; 6% did and didn't enjoy it ; 5% didn't but would like to try. women : 26% did and enjoy it ; 7% didn't enjoy it ; 18% would like to try it.
mircea_popescu: ahahahaah
okcupid blog links their competitor as sausageparty.com
assbot:
Okcupid shenanigans: General intelligence questions | Azelphur's Blog.
ThickAsThieves: of the type of person that would fill out
okcupid profiles
mircea_popescu: dude i'm having an on again / off again relationship with
okcupid and it's official bl'og.
mircea_popescu: "The official blog of
OkCupid.com. Shows trends and insights into it's online dating network."
Azelphur: and
okcupid has intelligence questions
assbot: Voicing
okcupid.com for 30 minutes.
JorgePasada: All my friends keep trying to get me on
OkCupid mircea_popescu: o, you're from X company ? so you're too stupid to live, right, just like the geniuses that founded
okcupid, facebook, whatnot.
ThickAsThieves: "We are averaging 10,000 new customer sign-ups a day, and are now working with over 16,000 merchants including
OkCupid, Khan Academy, and Reddit, who use Coinbase to accept bitcoin. "
Bugpowder:
okcupid.com is now accepting bitcoins
dub: based on the one photo on
okcupid