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by 456hdsaq234g 2925 days ago
Careful, this is sounding a little eugenic with the "must be on the site". There is no possible way to implement this without some authoritarian regime making it so. I get the impression that this idea if rather coercive.
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The app idea isn't related to improving the genetic quality of a human population, but it does solve for the chicken & egg marketplace problem. Having everyone who's 'single and looking' on it could be solved by its mere popularity (ex. Facebook).
Right. My point is that it would be trivial to pivot to eugenics. States like Singapore have been accused of eugenics by running State Dating agencies.