Moral comments on the matchmaking problem
There are statistics, of women beaten by their husbands. It is
usually considered as a legal problem, that is, what can be done to
protect the rights of mistreated women, such as the right to
divorce, financial rights related to sharing the time of keeping
children. However it never addresses the root of the problem, what
is, why did they choose to marry these bad guys in the first place ?
Did they have no better option ?
Once I was in a restaurant near 2 girls talking together. I heard
one say "All guys are bastards". That is what they observe. Is that
true ? Well I don't think so, as I am still a desperate single and I
consider that I definitely would not have any such behavior that
they complain of. However I was too shy to be able to enter the
conversation. So they would not know that exceptions such as mine
would exist, and they will keep the experience as if all guys are
bastards, because only bastards can dare to run after them. This
also explains the abundance of bastards, as a vicious circle : if
bastards have better chances to find love than nice guys and nerds then they
also reproduce better.
I am not the only one with this problem. Other very good people
suffered the hell of loneliness, such as Beethoven or Evariste
Galois. You might say he did not wait long enough to find his chance
before dying. However this is the very claim everybody always
smashed me under: they always told me "You are young, you will find
!". This way people give themselves good conscience, that is, of
course I am stupid to complain about loneliness because of course
I'm going to find my love soon later. And of course they are very
good and wise to have faith that this is a non-existing problem for
this reason. They smash all possibilities of understanding of the
world under this absolute moral value of beliefs : that it is
spiritual to deny the problem, and one has to be an ugly villain to
complain and believe in the problem. However the fact is still there
: many years later I still did not find, and my life remains a hell
as it has always been, so that I still fail to find a justification
why the world can be considered worth my care to stay alive in this
suffering. So I guessed the truth from the start, that I am victim
of a huge problems and my chances to get out are low, while they
were in denial. However there is no way to explain this to anyone,
because for everybody, claiming that the problem does not exist and
that it is a shame and a ridicule for anyone to complain, is a
matter of a priori value of beliefs, not a matter of facts. Because
their beliefs live in a separate world of values, of "what is good
to believe" in order to be nice, to be spiritual, to have faith in
God, to be humanist or humble towards the rest of people. Facts have
no place there, they are just considered wrong whenever they are in
conflict with such values.
And what is the result ? Some people are so dumb that they find it
strange and paradoxical when things reach their logical
consequences, such as mass murders committed by naturally nice
people like Elliot Rodger. He finally decided to kill everybody as
he observed how cruel and unfair is this world where the privilege
of love relationships is reserved to bastards because pretty girls
only love bastards while nice people are left alone. So, while of
course there are times when people become serial killers because
they are mad, there are other times when someone has legitimate
reasons to become a serial killer because he is the nice guy who
wisely understood that the rest of the world is mad and persecutes
him precisely because of his qualities, so that these mad people
really do not deserve to live.
Admittedly, mass murder is not a good solution either, as it does
not much help people understand the problem and start looking for
effective solutions (since people are usually much too stubborn in
their worship of stupidity, denialism, and the domination of the
majority of bastards as their norm and ultimate virtue, that even
when their attention is forced to notice that something is going
wrong by such a spectacular evidence as a mass murder by a nice guy,
it still won't work to wake them up to sane reason). And even if
more people understood, so what ? They could not do anything about
it, since a good solution is a matter a few wise people inventing a
wise solution, not a matter of how many dumb people would be
miraculously aware of a problem which they have no intelligence to
solve anyway.
How might the problem be solved then ? And what needs to be exactly
done, that this mad world is guilty of not doing ? What is needed,
is to create a dating system giving much better chances for good
people to find their love. You may say : dating sites exist, so the
solution is here. Yes but their way of working is quite sub-optimal.
There are independent sites for a separate kinds of public, not the
same sites being most popular depending on countries, making it
cumbersome for someone to make a wide search across many
possibilities (countries or any kind of orientation). The very fact
of the multiplicity of sites competing for users and having separate
databases, is sheer nonsense, one of the terrible causes of relative
inefficiencies compared to what should be possible in principle,
together with many other kinds of bad designs of such systems as
they currently exists. The principle of online dating has
advantages, not only its possible efficiency to easily browse for
the best possible matches across many people, but also because in
front of a computer, shy people can much more easily overcome their
shyness to declare their interest for someone, and it can ensure
that people do not so accidentally lose contact without a chance of
return if they happen to find a possible match, as what often
happens in real life.
Another trouble is the possibility for people to lie on themselves
in their profile, so that many girls don't trust such systems and
are afraid to meet bad people there. Indeed, any advantage that bad
guys can take over good guys in the search for love, such as the
possibility to lie, is a very unfortunate thing - maybe not just
worse there than in the "outside world".
However, the point is that it is possible to do a better system, as
I envision in the framework of my project. And precisely, it is
possible to solve the trust problem. The problem is : why is so many
people's attitude just that "dating systems are risky, so, Internet
does not appear as a good solution to find love", but so few people
would think "We see a new kind of solution but it has a big defect,
so how can we design a similar system that would be free from this
defect ?"
So there is a problem, and it looks far from obvious to think about
a solution. But just because stupid people do not naturally see a
solution, it does not mean that there is no problem to solve, or
that no solution is possible in principle making it vain to express
the problem and put it in the list of global problems that need a
solution.
Now, here are two interesting observations about this problem.
One is : how strange it is that essentially none of the generous
people around the world, appears able to understand this trouble,
one of the worst cases of cruelty and injustice of the world, that
is precisely a terrible accident happening in feelings : loneliness,
the lack of love ; and what kind of possible solution may help. That
these generous people are only able to understand the material needs
of others, which may be answered just by sending money to those in
need. That they are ready to dedicate their charity resources to
expensive material needs of the many poor just because the
understanding of these needs can be understood as the most trivial
abstract generalities, and the answer is also the most trivial
abstract generality to understand (just sending money to finance
known help to the poor). But nobody would ever consider providing
any little bit of help that would require a mental effort to
understand, first that the problem exists (as it feels a shame to
admit) and second, to define the plan of what can be efficiently
done in reply, in face of the evidence of (already existing and thus
potentially higher) usefulness that the success of dating sites
demonstrate, and that it would cost much less than the usual charity
budget to make a good dating system providing love to millions of
people who direly need it, and the fact (maybe not smashingly
visible enough against the widespread denialism) that among victims
are many good people awfully suffering loneliness for no decent
reason but the sheer accident of not knowing the contact address of
their right matches on time. Instead, only greedy people happened to
understand the problem and care providing some kinds of
pseudo-solutions (more dedicated to abuse people's money as much as
possible than to really help).
I might admit, it is not exactly that greedy people would really
understand love and its miseries better than generous people do.
Rather, it seems to be that greedy people understand money, while
money understands love. Exceptions (generous people able to
understand the needs of love) are so few and hard to find. And they
are clearly absent from religions anyway.
In a philosophical debate with a Catholic guy (fond of Thomas
Aquinas), I pointed out the presence of the problem of loneliness,
by statistics of how many people used dating sites, and even, that
many people find their love in this way. For one time that
statistics can mean something about the generality of problems that
people are usually reluctant to admit ! His answer ? Something like,
"dating sites develop because there is a market, there is money to
make there". Well, if the deep reason why dating sites appear and
multiply is that it is a profitable business, then the deep reason
why so many people register and pay to use them, must surely be
their irresistible need to throw their money out of the window in
this way.
The other : Why did we never see any demonstration of large crowds
of singles in front of scientific research institutions, to put
forward this claim : "We need a new technology to more efficiently
find good lovers, please help !" ? And why do many people expect the
help to come from God instead, and would care to pray Him for this ?
Is it only because of the fear of ridicule attached to the first
option, that may be avoided in the second one ?
Indeed, I find it vain to pray God for this, for the following
reasons
- If someone needs and deserves to find love and God can help,
then God should already know and care to provide the help no
matter if the person prays or not. There is no sense to ask God
to become good : if God can become good then he should already
be so before asking.
- It is nonsense to expect God to guide someone to find his
love, because God is universal, so that His will should not
depend on the person having the chance to be divinely guided. So
if ever God was able to guide some people, and He wishes to help
someone find love, then the possibilities for Him to do so
should not depend on the occasion that the concerned person
happens to get the divine guidance. Instead, God should consider
to use anyone else He can guide, to order sending emails
inviting the future lovers to get to know each other. Since such
a matchmaking method never took place as far as I know, I must
conclude that God is not guiding anybody on Earth.
But, now replacing God by science and technology, do the above
reasons hold against the hope that the needed help may come from
scientists if people clearly decided to charge them with this
mission ?
Already the second point looks different, as technologies of
dating sites visibly happened to be helpful, only not ideal, since
existing systems were not so well-thought, being not well-designed
by scientists.
Still the first point remains unclear. Namely, if some scientists
can be clever enough to be potentially able to design a very
efficient dating system, how can they at the same time be so
stupid that they could not notice the presence of this need, as if
the existence of so many people in such a desperate need to find
love that they are ready to pay totals of many million $$ to
dating sites, remained a mystery beyond the scope of a reasonable
guess of good scientists, so that an explicit procedure of public
expression is needed to let them know ?
Don't worry, you don't need to search far away anymore for good
intelligent people able to understand love and which method would
efficiently answer its needs, nor to demonstrate much in front of
scientific research institutions to ask for the creation of a new
research program in this sense : I already did the work and
designed the plans for this. I found 2 main structures of
solutions, one very
simple and low-tech that would be very easy to implement
(just look at the idea and see how ridiculously easy to understand
and implement it is ! so the big mystery is why nobody thought
about it and implemented it earlier), and the other as part of my
project of online social network. However, the big need now is to
actually get a team of good programmers to implement this network.
This is THE problem.
It is interesting to see how what looked like a plausible guess
when considered in its abstract generality, "Generalizing from
the abundance of caring scientists we know leaves only one
explanation consistent with all evidence: human minds as they
currently exist are not capable of effecting our most desirable
present and future. ", suddenly collapses when a concrete
example comes to mind. F***g statistics.
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