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Comment by danieltillett | Hacker News Reader

Curious if you have any data that MB helps in long term relationships? I know it seems obvious, but I suspect certain MB types clash.

I have often wondered if adding friction to the whole dating process is the solution to the problem. Slow down people and they are going to be less likely to immediately dismiss on the basis of looks.

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I more of a mental chemistry kind of guy and it was often harder for me to find somebody who had the same mental wavelength similar to mine. I suppose MB could be a way forward to achieve such a goal.

I have been thinking to integrate AI to derive personality and make the user experience lot better rather than using a form for MB.

I am not the best person to comment on this as I have been married for 20 years and so have never had to live through the whole modern dating scene, but I think the problem with your idea is that MB personality types are not equal distributed between men and women. This is likely the reason why you have trouble finding someone on your mental wavelength.

The bigger problem in my opinion is crazy/damaged people. If you could find a way of screening out the crazies via AI you would have a major hit.

I think screening can be done once a user chats with an AI agent. That was what my initial idea was, to converse with an AI agent to derive who you are and what you personality is. I needed to make something quick that's why I went with MB.

I suppose achieving samantha (from the movie her) level AI could be done in the near future if I put my work to it

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