Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
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- Dating apps are popular but widely hated due to ineffectiveness, dehumanization, and cost.
- Network effects create an oligopoly where profitable incumbents resist displacement by better alternatives.
- Speed dating events with small groups paradoxically succeed, contradicting the network effects argument.
- The author argues high-bandwidth in-person interactions provide more useful information than dating apps.
- Selection and behavioral changes are dismissed as major factors; the key is bandwidth.
- Dating apps remain low-bandwidth and profit-driven, failing to replicate in-person interaction benefits.